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Info on Swastika - or four directions

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From: Judy Decker (Jdecker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sun Dec 30 2001 - 15:45:30 PST

I sent this to Sidney a while back -- maybe other are intersted too?

The swastika is still a Native American symbol -- and was long before the
slaves arrived - and long before Hitler. I think with some of the other
cultures (African and Native American) the crosses are bent in the opposite
direction.

These pages give good summaries:
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/swas29.shtml
http://socrates.barry.edu/engfor-apeever/201julie.htm
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/swastika.html