United Houma Nation, Louisiana (U.S.)

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Last modified: 2023-02-11 by rick wyatt
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image by Rob Raeside, 15 June 2012

• The flag
• White flag

See also:

• Index to North American Native Bands and Nations
• Louisiana
• United States of America

The Flag

The flag is red, edged yellow, with the seal in the center.
Vanya Poposki, 15 June 2012

White flag

image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 9 January 2023

The United Houma Nation was created in 1979 by the merging of the Houma Tribes and the Houma Alliance. It is a State Recognized Tribe of Louisiana.

Wikipedia shows a white flag with the logo slightly eccentric, uploaded in 2006, that is anterior to the one in FOTW (2012). A former flag?

The website nativeheritageproject.com shows the old Houma war emblem, beside John Swanton in 1907, who contributed to their revival as a tribe. The emblem represents a red crayfish (Saktci-Homma), widespread in Louisiana and unfavorably known in Europe as an invasive species. Houma means "red" and is at origin of the nickname "Redskin people" given by Europeans to American Natives, it is found in Muskogean names like in "Oklahoma".

Sources:
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2012/10/27/houmas-indians-of-terrebonne-parish-louisiana/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houma_flag.png 
https://64parishes.org/entry/houma-nation

Jean-Marc Merklin, 9 January 2023