Seal of Minnesota

Great Seal of the State of Minnesota

Versions

Details
Armiger	State of Minnesota
Adopted	1861
Motto	L'Étoile du Nord (The Star of the North)

The Great Seal of the State of Minnesota is the state seal of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

1 Symbolism
2 Government Seals of Minnesota
3 See also
4 References

Symbolism

The settler with his plow is depicted as being on the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls. His gun rests beside a stump signifying that he had given up war in exchange for farming, but was ready to defend himself. The Native American gallops toward the setting sun to symbolize Native American decline.^[1]

Government Seals of Minnesota

References

^ Berg, Annemarie (1979). Great State Seals of the United States. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. pp. 77. ISBN 0396077056.

State seals of the United States

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State of Minnesota

Saint Paul (capital)

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Regions	Arrowhead Boundary Waters Buffalo Ridge Central Coteau des Prairies Driftless Area Iron Range Minnesota River Valley North Shore Northwest Angle North Woods Pipestone Red River Valley Southeast Twin Cities metropolitan area

Larger cities pop. over 60,000	Bloomington Brooklyn Park Burnsville Coon Rapids Duluth Eagan Eden Prairie Maple Grove Minneapolis Plymouth Rochester Saint Paul St. Cloud Woodbury

Smaller cities pop. over 10,000	Albert Lea Alexandria Andover Anoka Apple Valley Austin Bemidji Big Lake Blaine Brainerd Brooklyn Center Buffalo Champlin Chanhassen Chaska Cloquet Columbia Heights Cottage Grove Crystal East Bethel Edina Elk River Fairmont Faribault Farmington Fergus Falls Forest Lake Fridley Golden Valley Grand Rapids Ham Lake Hastings Hibbing Hopkins Hugo Hutchinson Inver Grove Heights Lakeville Lino Lakes Mankato Maplewood Marshall Mendota Heights Minnetonka Monticello Moorhead Mounds View New Brighton New Hope New Ulm North Branch North Mankato North St. Paul Northfield Oakdale Otsego Owatonna Prior Lake Ramsey Red Wing Richfield Robbinsdale Rosemount Roseville Sartell Sauk Rapids Savage Shakopee Shoreview South St. Paul St. Louis Park St. Michael St. Peter Stillwater Vadnais Heights Waconia West St. Paul White Bear Lake Willmar Winona Worthington

Counties	Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau St. Louis Scott Sherburne Sibley Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

Seal of Minnesota

Contents

Symbolism

Government Seals of Minnesota

See also

References