The flag and banner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma consists of a traditional Osage Nation buffalo-skin shield with seven eagle feathers on a sky blue field.
The Osage shield is covered by two symbols of peace: the peace pipe or calumet representing Native Americans, and the olive branch representing white people. Six golden brown crosses, Native American symbols for stars, are spaced on the shield. The blue field represents the first official flag flown by any Native American Nation, the Choctaw flag of the American Civil War.
The state legislature adopted the following salute to the flag in 1982: "I salute the flag of the state of Oklahoma: Its symbols of peace unite all people."
