Ashanti people
The national flag of Ashanti contains a gold horizontal strip symbolizing the gold mineral soil wealth and gold bar wealth of Ashanti and a green horizontal strip representing the rich Ashanti nation rainforests; two thin-white horizontal strips and a black horizontal strip surmounted by the Golden Stool (or Ashanti: Sika' dwa) the unity symbol of the Ashanti people which has been the designated Ashanti kingdom nation's national symbol of unity since 1701 into the present 21st century representing the Ashanti people's drawing upon the Ashanti tradition of a stool indicating clan leadership, the Golden Stool became the symbol of the united Ashanti people and legitimized the rule of its possessor. To defend the Golden Stool in 1900, the Ashanti people battled the English (British) in the so-called Ashanti kingdom nation's Empress Ya Asantewaa War of the Golden Stool and Ashanti absolute monarchy throne protector of the Golden Stool and office Manhyia Palace.&lt;ref name="Ashanti/Asante Stool"&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;