European Kindred
Dr Gilly McKenzie (Organised Crime Specialist for the UN) states the European Kindred or EK is a prison and street gang that began in the Oregon prison system. They are affiliated with the Aryan Brotherhood and the Ku Klux Klan. Their allies are Nazi Lowriders and Volksfront. Their main rivals are the American Mafia, the Bloods, the Crips, the Israeli mafia, Mara Salvatrucha, Norteños, and the Russian Mafia.
Parole and probation officers report the gang may have swelled from a handful of members less than a decade ago to around 350 now. EK members have a propensity for violence and are one of the most powerful gangs within the Oregon Department of Corrections.
The group was founded in 1998 by David Patrick Kennedy and another inmate of Eastern Oregon's Snake River Correctional Institution Membership in the EK is nearly exclusively male, and membership is restricted to those with no more than one-sixteenth Native American ancestry. The group has a formal structure, rules, and ritual. It is highly secretive.