Die Kriegerflagge der Six Nations, gehisst in New Caledonia, Kanada. Derzeit wird um altes Indianerland gestritten, das von Baufirmen in Luxuswohnkomplexe umgewandelt werden soll. Allerdings halten bisher einige dutzend Eingeborene das Gelände besetzt und eine Welle der Solidarität ist zu spüren. Selbst Indianer anderer Stämme, die gesammten Six Nations, halten zu den Besetzern.
The lone native protester waving a red and gold flag on the Mill Road overpass on Highway 401 refuses to give his name and talks in analogies.
“They’re opening the book,” he says of drivers honking in support.
“This is my book,” he says, pointing to the flag. “You can’t judge a book by its cover. Open the book and read it.”
Take his photograph. Sure. Get the words — Oneida Special Forces, front and centre on his T-shirt — down correctly in a notebook.
His name, though, is not important.
“I’m not out for myself,” he says.
He arrived early yesterday morning, the flag tied to a stick, and began waving at motorists on Canada’s busiest highway two hours away from Caledonia.
The flag shows a native man surrounded by points in many directions, like a sun crown.
“The flag doesn’t mean warriors. It is our unity flag. All these points symbolize the directions of our unity,” says the highway protester.
“I am supporting my brothers in Caledonia.”
Natives did not and do not seek violence in their protests over their rights, he says.
“You guys came to Canada to our open arms, not crossed arms.”
But, he says, the natives cannot keep letting their land drift away into housing subdivisions and playgrounds for whites.
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