These organizations are primarily found in the prairie provinces, which tend to have areas with high concentrations of people of indigenous descent.
[1] IBOC is an important national monitored issue, as defined by Criminal Intelligence Service Canada.
One approach in Winnipeg recommended an all-indigenous school board in the face of increased gang involvement by indigenous youth.
[3] These schools are viewed as a means of increasing respect for traditional indigenous values while allowing youth to avoid involvement in gangs.
[5] Indigenous gangs, as the Criminal Intelligence Service Canada classifies them, have surpassed outlaw motorcycle gangs and Italian organized crime syndicates as the largest single group held in federal prisons, with 1,936 members serving federal sentences.