The Pike-Pawnee Flag Incident: Reexamining a Vexillological Legend
Resource type
Author/contributor
- Platoff, Anne M. (Author)
Title
The Pike-Pawnee Flag Incident: Reexamining a Vexillological Legend
Abstract
The most famous flag incident in Kansas history may have actually occurred in Nebraska. The mythology surrounding Zebulon Pike’s 1806 encounter with the Republican Pawnee Indians yields to present-day historical analysis.
Publication
Raven: A Journal of Vexillology
Publisher
North American Vexillological Association (NAVA)
Date
1999
Volume
6
Pages
1-8
Journal Abbr
Raven
ISSN
1071-0043
Archive
NAVA Digital Library
Language
[eng] English
Library Catalog
NAVA Publications Index (NPI) // International Vexillological Index (IVI)
License
open access
Extra
[IVI.CID] 70d7799b-57c7-4e99-9d5e-f5423e9426a3
Citation
Platoff, Anne M. 1999. “The Pike-Pawnee Flag Incident: Reexamining a Vexillological Legend.” Raven: A Journal of Vexillology 6: 1–8. NAVA Digital Library. https://www.nava.org/digital-library/Raven_v06_1999_p001-008.pdf.
Organization
Topic
- 14RP1
- 25WT1
- A. T. Hill
- “Arkansaw Journey”
- Elizabeth Johnson
- first U.S. flag-raising in Kansas
- flag incidents
- George Johnson
- Hill site
- historic sites
- Juan Pedro Walker
- Kansas
- Kansas Historical Society
- Kansas legends
- Kansas Monument Site
- Kansas-Nebraska border
- Kitkehahki band of Pawnee
- Lieutenant James Biddle Wilkinson
- Louisiana Territory
- Pawnee Indian Village State Historic Site
- Pawnee villages
- Pike-Pawnee flag incident
- “Pike’s Pawnee Village”
- Republic, Kansas
- Republican Pawnee
- Spanish flag
- Stars and Stripes
- United States flag
- vexillological legends
- Waldo Rudolph Wedel
- Zebulon Pike
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