16th-century American Indian teacher and Onondaga chieftain. He is said to have welded the Five Nations (later joined by a sixth) of the Iroquois into the league of the Long House, as the confederacy was known in what is now upper New York State. The hero of H W Longfellow's epic poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is an unrelated fictitious character.
White stands for Islam, peace, optimism, light, and love. Red recalls the martyrs of Sudan and the people's struggle. Black stands for Sudan and the Mahdiya revolution of the 1880s. Effective date: 20 May 1970.