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image by Ivan Sache, 5 July 2019
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The Günün a Küna are a Tehuelche community, living in the regions of Rincón
de los Sauces and Auca Mahuida, in the north of the Province of Neuquén.
The
Lof Lucero Pichina:u community was recognized legal personality by Decree No.
2,223, signed on 5 November 2015 by the Governor of the Province of Neuquén.
https://www.mejorinformado.com/regionales/2015/11/13/decreto-personera-jurdica-comunidad-tehuelche-18798.html
Mejor Informado, 13 November 2015
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2019
The Lof Lucero Pichina:u community tabled in April 2019 at the Neuquén
legislature a Bill for the official recognition of the Günün a Küna flag.
The flag was unanimously approved during a meeting held in Gaiman (Chubut)
on 13 November 2016. The Organization of the Günün a Küna People, during its
constitutive meeting held on 22 September 2018 in Rincón de los Sauces,
recognized the national flag, the provincial flags and its proper flag. The
official flags in Neuquén are the national flag, the provincial flag, and the
Mapuche flag (wenufoye). The latter was used in school even ts and is hoisted on
the main square of San Martín de los Andes, as a symbol of interculturality.
The elements of the Günün a Küna flag are:
- Ajwü: the outer / upper
space. The spiritual land where the creators live. This is the space of the sun
and the moon, the feminine and masculine forces of cosmos, respectively. The
constellations indicate the collective ceremonies of healing.
- Atük: the
territorial space. This is the world where human beings live, breed and develop,
represented by the green mountain. The white triangle represents the sacred
hills while the rainbow represents the key to access to the spiritual world and
brings peace and calm by submitting storms.
- Jalkürrü: the inner space.
This is the world of the dead and ancestors, represented by the sea, which is
the access or ancestral river by which all spirits return to the ancestral
family. The white background recalls the old flag used by the ancestors, "the
people from before", while the addition of symbols represents the "people from
the present". This is the union of past and present to forge a future.
https://www.rionegro.com.ar/una-comunidad-tehuelche-quiere-que-la-legislatura-reconozca-su-bandera-942334/
Río Negro, 4 April 2019
Ivan Sache, 5 July 2019