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English: This is the flag of the Ho-Chunk Nation. From the website associated with this image:

"The Ho-Chunk flag was adopted in 1992 (Tribal Flag, undated pamphlet). It is white with a green border, and bears an ornate horizontal stripe across the middle and the tribal seal in the center. The flag's five basic colors - red, white, green, blue, and black - represent specific animals in the kinship system in which each clan is associated with a particular animal and hopes to gain the admirable qualities of that animal. Each color also has special meanings in sacred tribal stories which are recalled by their use in the flag.

The seal, adopted in 1984 (ibid..), is white with black edges. It includes two of the most important animals in Native American beliefs, the thunderbird and the bear. The thunderbird, depicted as a brown eagle, represents the six upper clans from which all Ho-Chunk chiefs must come; it carries a pipe for the peace enforced by the upper clans - the pipe has yellow feathers and a red pipe head. Below it is the bear, in black, representing the six lower clans and the "Chief of the Earth" in Ho-Chunk belief. In the Ho-Chunk society the members of the Bear clan maintain order, providing the soldiers and the police. A brown war club separates the thunderbird from the bear. This design was common among the many Tribes in the western reaches of the Great Lakes.

These images overlie a blue-green outline map of Wisconsin within a ring with the legend "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE HO-CHUNK NATION" arching across the top."