| The state seal shows a large
star which represents the north star, and nineteen smaller stars
which mean that Minnesota was the nineteenth state to join the
union after the original thirteen. The date of admission, 1858,
appears along with 1819, the first settlement, and 1893, the first
flag adoption. There is a settler plowing his field, and an Indian
riding into the sunset. The words on the flag, "L. Etoile du Nord"
are French for "The North Star." The stump with an ax in it, and
the pine trees stand for lumbering and the state tree. Framing
the seal is the state flower. |
