Indian 'Shadow Wolves' stalk smugglers on Arizona reservation

[The Straight Story]

Indian 'Shadow Wolves' stalk smugglers on Arizona reservation
They work for the federal government — and also to protect sacred lands of the Tohono O'odham Nation along the border with Mexico.


Reporting from the Tohono O’odham Nation, — Kevin Carlos hates how the drug runners tramp through the ancient cemeteries and holy places he holds dear.

That peak up there, he says, speeding toward the reservation's border with Mexico. That's where the creator lives. His name is I'itoi, the elder brother. He created the tribe out of wet clay after a summer rain. Tribe members still bring him offerings — shell bracelets, beargrass baskets and family photos — and leave them in his cave scooped out of the peak.

But the drug smugglers don't know that. On their way to supply America's drug markets, they use these sacred hilltops as lookouts, water holes as toilets and the desert as a trash can.

So Carlos hunts them.

Carlos is a member of the Shadow Wolves, a team of eight American Indian trackers who stalk drug smugglers though the desolate canyons and arroyos of the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/21/nation/la-na-adv-shadow-wolves-20111122

[Betsy Ross]

1. That's the way to do it.

The Native Americans have strong interests in protecting the land and a serious need for jobs in the Southwest.

[bluestate10]

2. And they are better at it than some pot bellied racist. nt

[FreakinDJ]

5. +1000

[xchrom]

3. Recommend

[lunatica]

4. I'd love to see a movie based on these Shadow Wolves

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Wow, great, great idea

There aren't enough interesting films being made these days. Why don't you do some research and write up a treatment? When I worked for a studio in creative development many years ago, I would have loved the potential here. Of course you have to come up with a developed storyline about real people, but the setting seems very interesting and timely.