Pan-Amerikan Native Front

The special characters used in the logo to substitute the letters ME in "Pan-Amerikan" and TI in "Native" derive from the Cherokee syllabary. The syllabary was invented by Sequoyah in the early 1820s and was quickly adopted by the Cherokee nation to learn how to read and write in their native language.

The bird logo was inspired by the shoulder sleeve insignia used by the 45th U.S. Infantry ...