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Ecuador - Indigenous Flags

Overview
Indigenous Flags Seen in TV - Report by Jaume Olle'
Indigenous Flags Reported by Written Sources
Indigenous Flags in the Web

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Overview

Beside of the fact that there are some basic versioins of the whipala, the flag is used toghether with the same flag but which have squares in the rainbow colors instead of stripes (Kollasuyo) the whipala with stripes is called the "tawantinsuyo" flag, or the Inca flag, the inca nation flag, the quechua nation flag. In ecuador they have also some variants. The original flag is the striped whipala, which was the coat of armor of the Inca, long before they started to think of having a own gay flag, rainbow warrior or other rainbow using flags in this world.
Concering the flags which are used in the original Whipala, as the images at this page EMBLEMA NACIONAL del PUSIN-SUYU = TAWANTINSUYU- Huipala/wiphala, where and when did the rainbow flag originate from?
The Indigenous banner is called " huipala" with the seven colors of the rainbow (symbolizing the unity of indigenous peoples before the conquest) and the black flags of Ruminahui (legendary leader of the autonomous movement) and Atahualpa La bandera indígena se llama : " huipala " con los siete colores del arco iris (que simboliza la unidad de la gente indígena antes de la conquista) y de los banderas negros de Ruminahui (arranque de cinta legendario del movimiento autónomo) y Atahualpa The Rainbow flag (Wipahla) belong to the Native Andean people of Tahuantinsuyu for more than 500 years. Each color and its place in the flag as the rainbow, have an own indigenous significance.
We have heard that the Indigenous org. of Cuzco , Peru is thinking about finding another flag to symbolize our native people, because of the problem above of using the flag by the gays community and the International Co-operative Alliance, claiming that they almost invented the flag in the 1920'ies.
Laila Holtet (<www.nativeweb.org>,webmaster of CONAIE, Ecuador <conaie.org>), 9 July 2001

Indigenous Flags Seen in TV

Today I saw in TV some Ecuadorian indigenous flags. I saw four flags clearly and another one quite well:

Ecuadorian Quichua Flag

by Jaume Olle', 15 January 2000

The first one seems to be the Ecuadorian Quichua flag. It is similar to the flag quoted by NAVA as "Inca" flags but with a sun in center. As is well known "Inca" is not a people but the name of the leader (empeor) of Quichua. According to NAVA there are 8 stripes but in the TV images there were only 7 (the white stripe is missinhg). Ratio c. 2:3

Ecuadorian Indigenous Flag

by Jaume Olle', 15 January 2000

The second flag seems to be the Ecuadorian indige