Overview

• The flag was unveiled today by the Comisión Estatal para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas after a months-long collaborative process involving elders, knowledge keepers and territory guardians from seven Otomí communities.
• Each color embodies ancestral meaning: white for women’s purity and wisdom, yellow for sun, moon and humility, blue for the sky and spiritual paradise, green for vegetation and sacred hills and black for death as a transition.
• A central arrow symbolizing the Otomí heart is surrounded by the monarch butterfly, poinsettia, oyameles, a pottery jar and the cardinal elements of fire, water, earth, wind, sun and moon.
• Community representatives and CEDPI officials said the banner will serve as an emblem of unity, cultural resistance and formal recognition of indigenous rights.
• Professor Pedro Baltazar emphasized the flag’s role in restoring Otomí identity among younger generations who have experienced a decline in cultural connection.