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State Flag
Adopted on April 2,1925.
The present Oklahoma State Flag adopted by the State Legislature in 1925, is Oklahoma's 14th flag. The Oklahoma state flag honors more than 60 groups of Native Americans and their ancestors. The blue field comes from a flag carried by Choctaw soldiers during the civil war. The center shield is the battle shield of an Osage warrior. It is made of buffalo hide and decorated with eagle feathers. Two symbols of peace lie across the shield. One is the calumet, or peace pipe. The other is an olive branch. Crosses on the shield are Native American signs for stars, representing high ideals. The flag was designed by Mrs. Louise Fluke.
An Osage warrior's buckskin shield, decorated with pendant eagle feathers is the basic design. In crossed positions over the shield are an Indian peace pipe and an olive branch, the white man's symbol of peace. The flag is a rich sky blue. The word "Oklahoma" is white. The Osage war shield is tan outlined in red, the peace pipe is white with red tips and the olive branch is green.
Official description from the Oklahoma State Statutes
25-91. The banner, or flag, of the design prescribed by Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 25, Third Legislature of the State of Oklahoma shall be, and it hereby is superseded and replaced by one of the following design, towit:
A sky blue field with a circular rawhide shield of an American Indian Warrior, decorated with six painted crosses on the face thereof, the lower half of the shield to be fringed with seven pendant eagle feathers and superimposed upon the face of the shield a calumet or peace pipe, crossed at right angles by an olive branch, as illustrated by the design accompanying this resolution, and underneath said shield or design in white letters shall be placed the word "Oklahoma", and the same is hereby adopted as the official flag and banner of the State of Oklahoma.
Official Salute
House Concurrent Resolution No. 1034
A Concurrent Resolution adopting an official salute to the Oklahoma State Flag.
WHEREAS, the Oklahoma Legislature adopted Senate Joint Resolution No. 24 on May 9, 1941, which officially approved and adopted the present Oklahoma State Flag; and
WHEREAS, no official form of salute has been provided for the Oklahoma State Flag; and
WHEREAS, 1982 is Oklahoma's Diamond Jubilee Anniversary and an appropriate time for adopting a salute to the Oklahoma State Flag.
Now, Therefore, be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 2nd Session of the 38th Oklahoma Legislature, the Senate concurring therein:THAT the following is adopted as the official salute to the Oklahoma State Flag:
"I salute the flag of the State of Oklahoma. Its symbols of peace unite all people."
Adopted by the House of Representatives the 22nd day of April, 1982.
Adopted by the Senate the 18th day of May, 1982.
Filed with the Secretary of State May 19, 1982.
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