ST.PAUL, Minn. – Governor Tim Walz is sidestepping the looming debate in the Legislature on whether to remove the state seal from the Minnesota flag and also to redesign the seal and flag. “While Republicans are going to be talking about this, I am going to be building roads, bridges and water treatment plants,” sad Walz, a Democrat, in a WCCO interview. “While Republicans talking about this, I am going to be making sure our kids are eating and we’re creating job creation. So they can debate it in the Legislature. We will see where it goes. But I think any time change comes, I think a lot of Minnesotans, when they look, our flag just looks like 19 other states.” Indeed, a cliché motif in U.S. state flags is a blue field with the state seal in the middle. And, yes, they all look the same when you’re looking up in a breeze.
The Native issue
Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a Native American activist of White Earth Nation lineage, has made her views quietly on the current seal. She refuses to use the sealn on her stationery or anywhere else. Indians see messages in the seal as outright and subliminal White domination and Indian subjugation