#haudenosaunee

Horsing Around

Craig Day Marvin, 2026

Saint Regis Mohawk, Wolf Clan

Ganondagan (New York)

had to draw a flying head, since DHS is trying to straight up disregard The Jay Treaty on my reserve and everywhere else for some reason

(for anyone that bothers):

Since I've been on a roll in making intersex flags. First: flags for the three major types of Indigenous groups whose lands were stolen to create the country I live in (Canada):

Left: intersex and First Nations (American Indian Movement) Middle: intersex and Inuit Right: intersex and Métis

Then I made some intersex flags for some specific First Nations whose cultures I have at least basic familiarity with: Left: Haida ©️........... Middle: Huu-ay-aht ©️....... Right: Musqueam ©️

Left: Blackfoot ........ Middle: Anishinaabe ©️ ... Right: Haudenosaunee

Note: The last three are confederacies of multiple nations. Order is based on geography, going west to east.

Personal Note: I am a settler and am not a member of any of these nations. I've moved many times in my life, and these nations are the rightful stewards of the lands that I personally feel I have the most connection to. 💜

Tagging for archival: @intersexflags @varsex-pride @radiomogai @beyond-mogai-pride-flags

Edit to note: at the time I made this post I was under the impression all of the First Nations flags above were public domain. I have since learnt that the license information of many of the original flags on Wikimedia Commons were incorrect.

The Haida, Huu-ay-aht, Musqueam, and Anishinaabe flags are all definitely copyrighted. You can still use and share the intersex versions, just don't go uploading them to Wikimedia Commons, or using the designs for commercial purposes (unless you get permission from the relevant First Nation!)

The AIM, Inuit, Métis, and Haudenosaunee flags are all public domain, and so my intersex versions are public domain too.

HOMELANDS

A long-running semi-permanent exhibit at the national Museum of the American Indian, Native New York, gives a straightforward, text-heavy account of native communities in New York State. Backlit maps and diagrams show who lived where and how. Communities in present-day Manhattan clammed at its northern tip, carved canoes along the Hudson, settled among the ponds at its center, and hunted beavers in its streams. Then in 1626 Peter Menuit gave the Lenape 60 guilders and claimed the entire island for the Dutch West India Company. The fiction of harmonious coexistence ended, and the struggle for sovereignty began.

Of all the artifacts on display (clay bowls, beaded mocassins, hand-hewn arrowheads, feathered spears, gourd-rattles, canoes dug from tree trunks, cartoons on newsprint, wool blankets), the most poignant is a Haudenosaunee passport, issued by a league of six Iriqouis nations (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora) and carried by enrolled members when they travel abroad. But it offers little security outside their homeland. It is recognized by the Irish government, only irregularly by the United States government, and not at all by the governments of Canada, Bolivia, Peru, and the European Union. One Canadian official, in denying the Haudenosaunee national lacrosse team entrance, called it a "fantasy document."