THE MÉTIS FLAGS
One saw to appear for the first time the Métis flag, the sign of the white infinity on white bottom before even the battle of Seven Oak in the Manitoba in 1816. The Métis flag is the oldest national flag that has been created in Canada. The English flag and the flag French of the New France with his flowers of lily are maybe older, but these two flags had been imported of Europe.
As symbol of national identity, the Métis flag has been created 180 years before the flag Canadian with the red maple leaf. The Métis flag displays the symbol of the sign of the infinity that represents the union of two vibrant and distinct cultures, the one of the French and the one of the First Nations of North America, to form a new culture disctincte, the one of the Métis. The flag symbolizes the creation of a new society rooted in a culture French and one of the First Nations without belonging there completely. The bruise represents the color of the universal space and the white the mind of the Métis, spiritual symbol of the hybridisation. 
The flag exists in two versions that propose different colors. On the one hand, the one with the blue bottom and the sign of the blank infinity for the Métis who worked mainly for the Company of the West North that was controled by the French and other part the one with the red bottom and the sign of the blank infinity for the Halfbreed ses English Country Borns that worked mainly for the Company of the Bay of Hudson that was controled by the English. These colors had been presented in 1816 to the Métis and in the Halfbreeds Country Borns by M. Grant, the original creator of the flag with the sign of the infinity, to distinguish the Métis of the Halfbreeds Country Borns who lived and moved in the big plains of the provinces of the prairies. The bruise is also the color traditionelle of the French of Canada and the red the color traditionelle of the English of Canada. The blue and white flag became the flag used strictly by the Métis and no the
Halfbreed Country Borns English. Some will even go until has say that the flag in depth red was used when the Métis were in war. But the blue flag or the red flag with the sign of the infinity were ever used at the time of the rebellion of Riel in 1869/1870 nor at the time of the one of 1885 in the provinces of the prairies. During this period, the flag used by the Métis of Riel was a flag with French symbols and the religious symbols joined to the Catholic religion. But with the rebirth of the pride of the set of the Métis in Canada, the Métis took, adopted and make wind beat the blue Métis flag with the sign of the white infinity that became the national flag
and the symbol of the inheritance of all Métis of Canada. The Nation Métis Contemporary brought a modification this while adding the flower of lily in the center of the Métis flag. This lily incorporated by Claude Samson for the Nation Métis Contemporary, recall us our French origins and indicate our geographical adherence in Quebec. This simple concept doesn't have any political significance, since it would go in opposition to an intrinsic value in our Nation, the one of the liberty.