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By Bob Collins I was wondering whether a long simmering controversy would reignite in the wake of the focus on the Confederate flag. Today. What’s the deal with this flag, Minnesota? First of all, they jammed about 10,000 things onto it. You’ve got your farmer, your sunrise, your waterfall, the state flower and, oh yes, …
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It, too, may fail to reflect current sensibilities. The current interest in the removal of the Confederate battle flag from public displays and store shelves provides an excellent opportunity to examine what the Minnesota state flag represents. The images on the flag are interpreted by state documents as innocuous symbols of the state’s history. A …
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Do you know what Minnesota’s state flag looks like? Don’t be embarrassed if you don’t; relative few people do. And that’s because it’s fairly undistinguished, “generic” even. And that’s why the proposed new flag design, unfurled before a state House committee last week, deserves serious consideration. Minnesota’s banner has waved in anonymity since 1893, when …
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There is not a school child in southwest Minnesota who can draw the Minnesota flag, freehand. We had better amend that. There are notably gifted children living in southwest Minnesota. But there are few children in Minnesota, few adults in Minnesota, few people anywhere who could make a drawing of the state flag. It’s a …
By Jeffrey A. Hess Minnesota History Magazine When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, its lawmakers picked a committee to design a territorial seal. The committee chose a design that showed an Indian family offering a peace pipe to a white settler. But the territorial legislature did not approve this design. Many of the lawmakers …
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