Most flags are about pride. This one is about presence. In 2005, an Indigenous artist named Curtis Wilson decided to create something that was missing—a national symbol that reflected Indigenous peoples across Canada. What he came up with wasn’t just a redesign of the Canadian flag. It was a rethinking of what it means to belong here. With salmon, an orca, and the familiar red and white, this flag doesn’t erase the Maple Leaf—it transforms it. Since then, it’s quietly become a symbol of reckonin