re: #362 SixDegrees

My bad - the same symbol has been independently constructed all over the world, including North America, where it pops up in Indian artwork on a regular basis. I assumed this was what was referred to as “Indian” in the OP.

My elementary school, constructed sometime in the 1920s, had a swastika moasiced into the tile floor entryway covered by a semi-permanently installed doormat. There were photos of it, however, so this used to come up a lot. There’s no link between the North American native use of the symbol and the Nazis.

My yearbook at New Mexico State was called The Swastika, it was adopted around 1910. The poster probably did mean Native American, BTW. :)