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The Climate Warming Stripes Flag. (As described by my good friends, Michael and Cassie from ‘Flags For Good’): “Climatologist Ed Hawkins designed the “Warming Stripes” (also known as “Climate Stripes”) as a visualization of our planet’s warming over time. The progression from blue (cooler) to red (warmer) stripes portrays the long-term increase of average global…

The Chinook Indian Nation. The Chinook Indian Nation is made up of the five western-most Chinookan speaking tribes at the mouth of the Columbia River. Their nearly 70-year-old constitution codifies who they are and identifies their five constituent tribes – the Clatsop and Cathlamet (Kathlamet) of present-day Oregon and the Lower Chinook, Wahkiakum (Waukikum) and…

Thirty years ago I was a volunteer Docent at the Denver Zoo. In a fit of nostalgia I decided to help out with the brand new winter event The Denver Zoo had started called ‘Wild Lights’. I was recalling that for Flanders Music Thanksgiving late afternoon was the time we decorated the store for Christmas.…

The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma is the second largest city in the state. It is situated on the Arkansas River between the Osage Hills and the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in northeast Oklahoma, a region of the state known as “Green Country“. Tulsa was settled between 1828 and 1836 by the Lochapoka Band of…

The Choctaw Braves. This is the symbol carried by the Choctaw men who sympathized with the Confederate States during the Civil War. The Choctaw Nation basically ended up in Oklahoma after the Indian Removal and the group that remained in Mississippi for the most part sided with the Confederacy. As a Vexillologist I have a…

The Choctaw Nation. The Choctaw Nation (Choctaw: Chahta Yakni) is a Native American territory covering about 6,952,960 acres (28,138 km2; 10,864 sq mi), occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area after the Navajo.…

Continuing with symbols of Host Nation peoples: The flag of The American Indian Movement. I do wonder when we as a nation will face real honest history and admit and confess what people who were convinced of ‘manifest destiny’ did to the people who were here in the first place. How can you ‘discover’ someplace…

We had to do some hunting around our home in St Clair Shores (Detroitish) but we did finally find some foliage to take photos of. We have had too much rain and not enough cold so the colors were few and far between. We sound like geezers, …‘Boyhowdy back in the olden days every tree…