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What Flag Is That 11.21.21
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…
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What Flag Is That 11.20.21
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…
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What Flag Is That 11.19.21
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.…
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What Flag Is That 11.18.21
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…
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A sample of Michigan Fall Color
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…
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What Flag Is That 11.13.21
The state of Oklahoma. The word itself comes from two Choctaw words: okla-humma (Red People). The nickname ‘The Sooner State’ refers to the non-white people who staked claims on the land before the official opening of lands in the Oklahoma Territory. The history of the state is completely involved with the Host Nation People who…
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What Flag Is That 11.12.21
The St. Regis Band of Mohawk Indians. Original members of the Iroquois League, they are ‘The People of The Flint’ ‘Keepers of the Eastern Door’. They are part of the Akwesane Band. The Tribe spans the boarder of the US and Canada. The are located mostly on the St. Regis reservation. In 1974, 200 Mohawks…
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What Flag Is That 11.11.21
Before the US changed it to Veterans Day, today was known as Armistice Day or The Day of Remembrance. Today I fly a flag that most of the rest of the Allied Nations recognize as the proper symbol for the day World War I came to a conclusion. At 5:45 am representatives from all of…
