Original challenge here.
Which one is the best flag for the Indian State?
Which one is the best flag for the Indian State?
ENTRY ONE said:Michigan is one of the fourteen provinces of Canada. It has a total area of 611,000 square kilometers. Michigan is bordered on the north by the Great Lakes and the Province of Ontario, on the east by the U.S. state of Ohio, on the south by the U.S. state of Kentucky, and on the west by the Canadian Province of Missouri. Michigan is Canada's most populous province with an estimated population of 13 million people. Of the total population, 2,500,000 live in the province's largest city and capital, Chicago. Other major cities include Détroit, Milwaukee, Marquette and St. Louis.
Michigan was first settled by various Native American tribes before being colonized by French explorers in the 17th century and becoming a part of New France. After the defeat of France in the French and Indian War in 1762 the region came under British rule, and was ceded to the newly independent United States after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. In 1805, the Michigan Territory was formed, which lasted until 1815. After the Treaty of Montréal, which ended the War of 1812, the Michigan territories were organized in the Meskwaki Federation (or Fox Federation), loyal to the British and under their protection. After the Marquette Act in 1855, the Meskwaki Federation was brought into Canada as the Province of Michigan, opening the region to European immigration.
First Nations in Michigan include the Meskwaki, Menominee and Miami. There is also a significant population with Métis, Irish, English and French ancestry. People of German descent are scattered throughout the Province with higher concentrations in Milwaukee and Detroit and a small population of Scandinavian origin may be found in the region of Chicago.
Michigan has the same form of government as the other Canadian provinces with a lieutenant-governor (who is the representative of the Crown in Right of Michigan), premier, and a unicameral legislature.
ENTRY TWO said:Here's mine though I haven't got the symbolism quite right yet
The Indian Confederacy was established in the wake of the 1812-1813 War as a British Protectorate.
As both the USA and later Canada spread west there were attempts on both sides to absorb the Confederacy however each side was denied when the threat of war became too great.
The Fire symbol on the flag represents the local name as being the Confederacy of the Treaty of the Fires
ENTRY THREE said:The State of the Great Lakes or (ᏍᏔᏖ Ꭳf tᎮ GrᎡᎠt ᎳkᎡᏍ) is a strongly authoritarian nation based on the Michigan Peninsula and extending westwards. The SGL, as the nation is known comprises of over half of the old Indian Territory carved out of the United States' Old Northwest after the 2nd Anglo-American War (1812). In the decade after that war, British agents moved through the countryside, attempting to civilize the natives and get them under British control. In some areas it worked, but, in 1830, the region was still basically filled with bunches of tribes that had varying degrees of loyalty to the British crown. In 1833, white settlers, Americans and British started to move in to the Indian Territory of Illinoise, as the British called the place at the time. From 1833 to 1890, whites and Indians clashed, the whites generally winning, due to being more organized, and exploiting Indians disunity. A few minor Republics were formed, many based around a single idea, or group, such as the scottish New Edinburgh Republic or the Smithist Menominee Free State. Throughout this time, the British were of little help. In 1912, leader of the Ojibwes, Thomas Hedican, educated in England and former soldier in the Chinese War, began to unite the Native Americans, eventually declaring the Federation of the Great Lakes, a union of tribes. This state eventually modernized, though trailing behind its more developed neighbors. The government acquired modern weapons and adopted the Cherokee script, using it to write the many tribal languages. In 1951, it withdrew from the British Empire in a two-week war, and, under the rule of Rudi Esquivel, half Bavarian, half Odawa, a unitary state was formed, under the name State of the Great Lakes. Since then, the SGL has been a multi-party state, but at the present is controlled mainly by the Christian Republican Party, of which Grand Premier Pontiac MacDonald is. The SGL is still a native state, and the tribal boundries are falling, with the rising connection between people. The people of the SGL are almost all registered as native americans, however, over half have some white or black ancestry, and the Metis make up a significant percentage of the population in some northern Counties. European influence is seen the languages, with many French and English-based words. These days, the SGL is relatively peaceful, although sometimes, sectarian conflicts do break out. The SGL is on decent terms with its neighbors, though the League of American Provinces (TTLs CSA) is a bit unhappy to have natives at their door.
The Flag of the Republic. The words read "Freedom, Bravery, Liberty" in the Ojibwe Language, though Liberty derives ultimately from French, coming through with the Metis.
A map of the former Indian Territory.
ENTRY FOUR said:TEPEHKIIPA
The British “Indian Protectorate” was set up following the victory of the United Kingdom in the 1812-13 war with the United States. When John C Frémont (US President 1857-1861) declared war (1859) on the UK over the question of territory and international borders to the west and north of the old “Louisiana Purchase”, the cry was also to recover the Indian Protectorate for the US. “Frémont’s War”, as it became known was extremely ill-advised; his anti-slavery stance had upset many slave-owning states, which now seceded from the US (1860). Frémont responded, with the agreement of the rump Congress, by rejecting secession and using military force against those states, which formed the Federation of the South.
The US was now facing a war on all fronts. Though the British refused to form an alliance with the Federation of the South, they placed no restriction of their merchants supplying arms and materiel to the South.
With the war going badly for the US, in the 1861 election Frémont was succeeded as President by James Buchanan. The new President was an experienced diplomat and accomplished negotiator. Accepting that his nation could not win the war, Buchanan negotiated a humbling peace with the British (Treaty of Lisbon, 1862). The ruinous war against the secessionists, who were now supported by the French, rumbled on for another 15 months before the independence of the Federation of the South was recognised by the US on 1 November 1864 (Treaty of Port au Prince). Buchanan was assassinated in Boston on 15 April 1864 by opponents of the treaties.
The Indian Protectorate had fought valiantly on the British side and was rewarded by the creation of the Dominion of Transmichigan at the same time that the Canadian Confederation came into being (1867). Transmichigan was invited to join the Confederation in 1867 and again in 1904, but declined on both occasions.
In 1941, Transmichigan became an independent kingdom within the British Commonwealth, adopting the name of Tepehkiipa. The current flag was adopted on 1 January 1942.
Map - 2014
Flag of the Indian Protectorate (1814-1867)
Flag of the Dominion of Transmichigan (1867-1941)
Flag of the Kingdom of Tepehkiipa (1941 to date)
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ENTRY FIVE said:The Indian buffer state was named the "Indian Free State" and was a dependency of the British Empire.
With full independence the nation was renamed the "First People's Union", which has used this flag:
