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PHOTO: What do these Native American symbols mean? Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community?

Here is an image of a Native American flag, or emblem… I would like to know the following, if anyone even knows one or two I would appreciate it, thank you!

Interesting they use this symbol

Originally it is an Anishinaabek (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Medicine Wheel. Which has now become a Pan-Native American symbol. So many Native American people use this Medicine Wheel

The Medicine Wheel represents and unites various aspects of the world, both seen and unseen, and emphasizes how all parts of the world and all levels of being are related and connected through a life force originating in the creation of the universe

The four colors represent the 4 directions (east, west, north and south), the blue the sky (above). and the green mother earth (below). The seventh direction is the center.
The basic meaning are listed here.

Anishnaabek (Ojibwe) interpretation of the medicine wheel

http://www.aaanativearts.com/printout925.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxYWKIgsOSI&feature=related

http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2004/photos/medicinewheel.jpg

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It appears to be a logo.

I don’t know the meaning of the other things listed.
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Edit

This site has a brief explanation of the Lakota Medicine Wheel.

The Medicine Wheel

http://www.aktalakota.org/index.cfm?cat=54&artid=47

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