Weekly Flag Challenge #177 POLL

[Xanthoc]

FLAG CHALLENGE #177: Gone Native

In honor of the approaching American holiday, create a flag for a nation in the Americas that possesses an ethnically and/or culturally Amerindian majority and founding. That means it can be a native tribe that adopted European customs but maintained autonomy, an atributed flag given to a sovereign Amerindian state, or a nation wherein all non-natives adopted their culture. Or anything else that fits the criteria really.

Submissions Open: Now
Submissions Close: 28th November 2017
Voting Period: 29th November - 6th December 2017

Wabanaki Confederacy
Wabanaki Mawuhkacik

After the failure of European colonialism, the European powers began to choose various tribes to collaborate with to still gain the resources available in the Americas. The English chose to ally with the Iroquois Confederacy, and provided them with many guns and other supplies to fuel their European markets. To gain more European goods the Iroquois started a number of territorial wars with surrounding tribes for more resources to sell. The Wabanaki Confederacy, formed from the Abanaki, Malecite, Passamaqouddy, and Mi'kmaq tribes, was one of the groups that the Iroquois attacked. The French had allied with the Wabanaki and provided them with enough European goods and guns to compete with the Iroquois. As the amount of territory a tribe or confederation controlled dictated how many resources they could collect and sell for European guns and good the Amerindians started to develop a sense of European statehood.

The Wabanaki to inspiration from one of their wampum belts to design their flag, modifying it slightly to easier to distinguish the symbols.

The Great Band
Pia Nʉmʉnahkahni
(Better known as the Comanche Empire)

The Great Band emerged from the unification of nomadic bands of the Comanche people (Nʉmʉnʉ) under the peace-chief Motsokupʉ (Old Bearded Man) and the war-chief Puhihwitʉhʉya (Iron Horse), who were proclaimed as the chiefs of all bands by the united council in 1790. Under their command, the formerly loosely allied war-bands were divided into a formidable army. They quickly pushed into the Northern provinces of New Spain, crushing the Spanish armies decisively in a series of engagements. By the time of peace-chief Motsokupʉ's death in 1805, the Great Band controlled the former provinces of Tejas and Nuevo México, allowing his successor peace-chief Ekarʉhkapʉ (Red Meat) to push further into the Viceroyalty, as the rule of Spain in the New World was disintegrating.

The Great Band was unparalleled in their use of light cavalry armed with guns and lances. Each warrior possessed three or four horses, allowing them to move with great speed and depend on foraging rather than supply lines. The conquest of the northern provinces allowed them to capture cannons and recruit the former soldiers skilled in artillery and engineering, which proved invaluable in the further expansion, as they could now successfully lay siege to forts and towns rather than rely on surprise attacks.

The banner of the Great Band featured the duality that permeated their entire philosophy. It shows the Day-Sun (also known as the Peace-Sun), yellow on red, and the Night-Sun (also known as the War-Sun) yellow on blue depicted on reversed stripes and framed by yellow. As a war-banner or when representing the war-chief, the banner was hoisted blue stripe up. During the times of peace or when representing the peace-chief, it was hoisted red stripe up.

 

[The Professor]

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[Petike]

Hm, I'm now really sorry I missed this round. Cool topic, I would have tried to put together something appropriate and interesting.