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Guarany people (Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil)

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image by Francisco Gregoric, 08 May 2008

About Guarany flags
Green, brown and red flag
Guarany flag used in Argentina
- Red and green
- Red and blue?
Flag-like logo for the Guarani language

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About Guarany flags

“El pueblo guaraní: unidad y fragmentos”, by Bartomeu Melià, says that: «En sus escuelas ondean las banderas de los países que se establecieron en su territorio; naturalmente no hay bandera guaraní», meaning that «In their schools, they fly the flags of the countries that have established themselves in their territory, naturally there is no Guarani flag.» Unless this is a convoluted and misleading way to say that the Guarany people has no independent state of its own, Bartomeu Melià seems to be quite wrong or at least outdated: There is a Guaraní flag. Even more than one, it seems. Most references to actual Guarany flags are from Argentina, not from Paraguay.
António Martins, 22 Apr 2008

There are variants of Guarani flags raised by Guarani people in Argentina.
Francisco Gregoric, 08 May 2008

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Red, brown and green flag

There are two versions reported:

At Indymedia.ORG, a demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 2004.04.30, is covered. It was called by El Tabacal de Hipólito Irigoyen, Río Blanco Banda Sur de Orán, Barrio Progreso de Pichanal and Iyigua Pentirami de Urundel organizations, from the Orán department, in order to demand to the (Argentine) national government an immediate solution to territorial conflicts involving Salta province natives. Guarany participants are said to sport «una bandera guaraní de colores verde, marrón y rojo», which means «a Guarany flag colored green, brown and red».
Also at Indymedia.ORG, another demonstration, this time in at the entrance of Seaboard Corporation’s La Loma, in July 2005. A prominently Guarany flag is mentioned, but not described; it is however safe to assume it is the same flag, as used by the same groups in a short interval.

These accounts of use of a green-brown-red flag by Guaranies in northern Argentina dovetail with the red-green-coffee horizontal tricolor of the proposed Chaco Boliviano department, in (neighbouring) SW Bolivia, as put forward by the local Assembly of the Guarany Nation. The apparent contradiction green-brown-red vs. red-green-brown may be due to inaccurate reporting or an actual vexillological variation.
António Martins, 22 Apr 2008

Indeed this tricolor flag does exist. Also at Indymedia.ORG, a photo of the flag appears. However the order there is red-brown-green. Therefore there is a contradiction in the order of the colors: the flag in the photo may be upside down, or the description made before could be wrong. As reported before, the colors are the same ones of the proposed Chaco Boliviano department flag but with different order.
Francisco Gregoric, 08 May 2008

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Guarany flag used in Argentina

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Red and green

image by Francisco Gregoric, 08 May 2008

At the Coaj.ORG, the necrology of Gloria “Chocha” Pérez, Cuña Campinta, of Fraile Pintado, Ledesma department, Jujuy province, Argentina. The photo is captioned as showing «Gloria portando la bandera Guaraní junto a su pueblo» («Gloria carrying the Guarany flag among her/its people»). It shows what seems to be a red over dark green flag, but too limp to show any more details.
António Martins, 22 Apr 2008

At another event held at the same village — Fraile Pintado, Ledesma department, Jujuy province, Argentina — a different (?) flag was used.
António Martins, 23 Apr 2008

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Red and blue?

image by António Martins, 15 Nov 2017

In this article, an officially sponsored gathering of native peoples in Jujuy province, Argentina, held in April 2008, is reported. This included ceremonial hoisting of the Argentine national flag, of the «Bandera Whipala» in this case probably the Qulla Suyu western Inca — white-diagonal chequered flag, and of a Guarany flag (presented as «la Bandera Guaraní», the Guarany flag) — see photo. The latter seems to be a red over light blue bicolor, although the photo is too unclear to be sure. It may be the mentioned red-green flag, oddly litten and/or bleached. Both events reported were held at the same village — Fraile Pintado, Ledesma department, Jujuy province, Argentina.
António Martins, 23 Apr 2008

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Flag-like logo for the Guarani language

image by Gvido Petersons, from a Guarani website

image from Wikimedia Commons, modified by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 August 2024

Other sites:

Guaraní Ñanduti Rogue website, edited by Wolf Lustig

Clearly a derivative of the Paraguayan national flag, charged over all with a native artistic motive.
António Martins, 06 Nov 1999

The symbol in the middle of the Guarani flag appears to be a piece of nanduti or “spider web” lace. (To see examples of nanduti lace patterns, go to onParaguay.COM.) I question whether this is a “real” flag. I spent several weeks in Paraguay on two separate occasions, and never saw the flag pictured here, though the Paraguayan flag was prominently displayed in many places. I realize that this doesn’t prove anything, but it does make me wonder if the flag pictured here is just a nice design to decorate a web page, rather than a flag the Guarani people consider their own.
Terry Jaisy, 27 Apr 2001

Has anyone actually seen this flag other than on the website referred to above? Is there any literature or news reports of its use? Is there a definition or construction sheet someplace?
Terence Martin, 29 Apr 2003

Apparently not. At worse this is the usual Paraguay national flag pattern (tricolor without the emblem) charged with a traditional Guarani ornament, used just once as a flag analogue. It might be something more solid than that, though. I don’t know.
António Martins, 29 Apr 2003

I saw no evidence that this flag exists in any form. It appears this design is used on just this website, and has never been created in cloth.
Terence Martin, 21 Apr 2008

It is not really a (officially recognized) flag. It is an invention of mine which uses a symbol of the Guarani culture based on a drawing realized by a member of a Guarani community, first published by the Hispano-Paraguayan scholar Bartomeu Meliá. I wanted it to symbolize and to recognize the Guarani roots of the Paraguayan nation, which actually are not at all represented through the official symbolism of the Paraguayan State.
Wolf Lustig (editor of the website where the flag design appears), 21 Apr 2008

Wolf Lustig needed a Guarany language icon to go with the flags used to symbolize other language versions of his website, and he pasted a Guarany “national ornament” on the flag of that country where Guarany language enjoys the best status (Paraguay).
António Martins, 22 Apr 2008

The source for the second image (from Wikimedia Commons) is not from Wolf Lustig's personal webpage, but rather the website of the South American chapter of N.F.-Board — the extra-FIFA international soccer entity that caters especially to unrecognized non-independent territorial/cultural entities. Their domain, csanf.org, was taken by squatters, and all the relevant archives don’t include the flag image. As archived in 2011, only an emblem is shown; certainly no flag. In practice, N.F.-Board stopped operating in 2012, for what’s worth. Its South American members left for a rival outfit, the CONIFA, even before that, but apparently no Guarany team ever made the transition.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 August 2024 & 30 September 2024

Emblem

image from Wikimedia Commons, modified by António Martins-Tuválkin, 15 August 2024

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