Found this while surfing the web. An interesting article:
Hindu Swastika Confused With Nazi Swastika By markulyseas on
April 18, 2011
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/markulysea...nazi-swastika/


According to the Nordicist version of the Aryan Invasion Theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the Swastika sprang, were the archetypal white invaders. The concept of racial purity was an ideology central to Nazism. Thus the Nazis saw fit to co-opt the Swastika as a symbol of the Aryan Master race.

I recall an interesting article about American western saddles from around the turn of the century that displayed swastikas. Really don't think that would fly today!
Best regards, Don

More confusion about red dot v. tomahawk?
 

Wikipedia is generally a good statring place for research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
I've heard the reference to Native Americans before. I don't believe it is accurate, unless connected by migration of Asian people across the Pacific, estimated to have taken place around 20,000 years ago--neolithic period.
Follow a link or two within the main article to find out more about use of the swastica in the early 20th century, in different countries and cultures...
Definitely a symbol "ruined" by its Nazi use. Too bad, because it's simple, symmetrical, and high contrast; it really "grabs the eye" as a graphic.
David Parker

Another example

For MikeP, that is beautiful! What a great example!!

David