August 12, 2013 at 8:16 pm
#36187
roca
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Syd;36796 wrote: My mother and my aunts remember sleeping under quilts made by our “old mothers” that had “swastika looking symbols inside circles” on the quilts. When World War II came along, the quilts were packed away downstairs in the basement, never to be used again. Does anyone else have any memories in their families of this symbol?
Syd,
I don’t have family memories of swastika looking symbols.
However,I have an old copy of Universal American Indian Sign Language by William Tomkins (c. 1926) that I bought way back in 1969. There’s a swastika on the back of this book;not sure of the context.
I heard that when WW 2 broke out,the Southwest US nations agreed to stop using the swastika because of
its Nazi symbolism.