"RED ROAD" FLAG
© 2007 all rights reserved Kisikew.Org
(OBSOLETE AS OF 13 SEP 2007)
This flag was designed by Simon (Kisikew.Org) and his partner to represent descendants of the peoples of the historic Métis Nation living outside the Homeland of the Red River valley now Winnipeg MB. After it was designed, it was used to oppose the unilateral attempt at extinguishment, ethnocide, and genocide of Métis peoples living outside what was deemed as "homeland" in 2002 by Métis-Canadians that is people deemed to be Canadian citizens who were resident in the British Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario and who were descendants of the original peoples of the historic Métis Nation.
The fact is the Sovereign Métis Nation pre-existed not only Canada,
but British Canada (aka British North America). Colonial states such as
Canada do not have the right to determine who is and who is not a member of
a Nation not their own (*), nor does a colonial state
such as British Canada have the right to unilaterally impose citizenship
and foreign cultures and customs on Indigenous peoples, seize lands and
territories of Indigenous peoples, and declare that Sovereign Indigenous
peoples no longer exist by refusing to recognise them. Nor does a colonial
state have any right to the symbols and traditions that define the
Indigenous peoples collectively such as the original flags of the
Métis Nation.
A Métis Nation which organizes itself under the aegis of a colonial
corporation such as British Canada is neither sovereign nor Indigenous, nor
can it claim to be historic or traditional. Dividing the colonial corporate
Métis Nation into corporate entities under Canadian provincial
jurisdiction -- a process known as municipalisation -- is just another
attempt at extinguishment of Indigenous Rights and genocide and ethnocide
of Indigenous peoples and should be strongly opposed.
13 September, 2007, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.
The truth is, people who are descendants of the Original peoples of the
Métis Nation of the Red River valley now known as Winnipeg Manitoba
have inherent rights which can never be extinguished by any colonial state
(corporation) or any of its provincial entities. These rights are birth
rights, inherent and inalienable in the Métis peoples as they were
inherited from the Ojibway, Cree, Saulteaux, and Oji-Cree mothers of the
Métis Nation, their Indigenous mothers.
To sum this up, there is no longer need for a Red Road (or Red River
valley) flag for descendants of the original peoples of the Métis
Nation who reside outside the homeland as defined by the colonial
corporation of British Canada; it is not only morally and ethically wrong,
it is illegal under international law for Canada and Canadians to
appropriate the symbols of the Métis Nation that belong collectively
to the Indigenous peoples and their descendants, even those who live
outside the historic homeland.
Reference Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states:
Article 15.
* (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
* (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Also see Article 16 and Article 17.
The flag image on this page was created by Redbird
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