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image by Jean-Marc Merklin, 10 August 2024
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I remembered another blue-white-red tricolor flag. I don't know if it's
related or if it's a coincidence but it should be remembered that during the
Mexican War of 1861, the French were allied with a number of Native American
tribes from Sonora, including the Yaquis, the Ocoronis, the Pimas, the Papagos
(now Tohono Oodhams) and others. Around 2016, I had presented on FOTW-fb a flag
drawn with the French-type tricolor with a saguaro cactus on the white stripe,
that I found on a website where it was labeled for "Pima". Someone who lived in
the area (Arizona) had replied that he had already seen this flag while he was
driving. Yesterday, after searching for this flag through Google Images, I came
across a 2011 Forbes article that states that this is(was?) the proposed flag
for a wannabe 51st state of "Baja Arizona". Here's the link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/oshadavidson/2011/02/25/will-baja-arizona-become-the-51st-state/
Jean-Marc Merklin, 10 August 2024
Baja Arizona was never taken as a very serious proposal; it has been thrown
around as a joke, fun idea, and as a state in less serious alternate history
maps, but otherwise that is really it.
I’m thinking the tricolor is there
to copy the “red white and blue” of the American flag. I wouldn’t make that much
of a connection between the French and natives; the Spanish barely even touched
Arizona, much less the French.
Daniel Rentería, 10 August 2024
Agreed, it surely is a coincidence [that it resembles a French flag] but as
the origin of the colors are still not so clearly explained, that historic fact
needed to be exposed, from my point of view. It may also have been copied from a
Texas flag version, or a combination of the American colors on Mexican vertical
stripes. The French never reached Arizona but the Yaquis, the Pueblos and many
of the "Natives" (not always native of USA) from Arizona and New Mexico traveled
to and from Mexico, still often speaking Spanish.
Jean-Marc Merklin,
10 August 2024