Thread by @decolonialatlas

Colonizers have long used flags as a tool of control. In their twisted idea of land "ownership" sticking a flag in the ground somehow meant the land was theirs, as if the people who actually lived there had no rights on the basis of not having their own flag.
(Pictured: Māori)

Now, Indigenous nations are reclaiming the flag as a source of cultural pride - and their designs are more beautiful and meaningful than any colonial flag.

(Amazigh, Wiphala, Aboriginal Australian, Mohawk Warrior Society)

(Ainu, Nunavut, Mexihcah, Sámi)

(Akimel O'odham, Taíno, Hawaiian, Anishinabek)

(Shíshálh, Maya, Mapuche, Haida)

(Tiwi, Laguna Pueblo, Haudenosaunee, Oglala Lakota)

(Lā'k!ēlak, Zia Pueblo, Métis, Tłı̨chǫ)