An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan's borders... The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, Lakota and Apache. It is being sent to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to pass on ancestral sign-reading skills to local border units... In recent years, members of the Shadow Wolves have mainly tracked smugglers along the US border with Mexico... But the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the US military's failure to hunt down Osama bin Laden - still at large on his 50th birthday on Saturday - has prompted the Pentagon to requisition them...
Read the story at TheAustralian.News.com.au
Some Background info: The term "Native American" came into usage in the 1960s to denote American Indians and Alaskan Natives (Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts of Alaska). There are more than 554 Indian tribes and Alaska native groups, each with their own culture and history. They speak more than 250 languages. Native Americans have been an integral part of the Customs Service for more than a hundred years. Customs Native American trackers, known as "Shadow Wolf," are instrumental in tracking and apprehending smugglers and criminals in parts of the American Southwest that no one else can penetrate.
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In the past... as today... our Native Americans have done so much to help this great country of ours. I hope this story holds true.
Safe, fast, successful hunting I send out to the Shadow Wolves...
AubreyJ.........
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