Minnesota Is Replacing Its 'Racist' Flag. Here Are Some of the Proposed Designs.

Townhall ^ | November 24, 2023 | Mia Cathell

[fwdude]

Following complaints from Native American groups, Minnesota's long-standing state flag and seal are undergoing an overhaul partly due to "racist undertones" supposedly on display. The state's 2023 legislative session led by Democrat lawmakers ordered both be changed because they've been deemed offensive to the Dakota and Ojibwe tribes as well as unattractive to the eye.

As it currently is, the historic 174-year-old seal—centered on the Minnesota flag—depicts a Native American atop a horse riding away into the sunset whilst a pioneer plows a field in the foreground with a rifle leaning on a nearby stump. "Native Americans have condemned this image for its depiction of a white settler encroaching on Native territory," the Minnesota Reformer wrote.

[No name given]

Indeed.

[SaveFerris]

That fixed everything!!

And I haven’t purchased either of those products since then. Nor Land of Lakes butter.

Because it was all so stupid and much ado about nothing.

[PeterPrinciple]

depicts a Native American atop a horse riding away into the sunset

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There weren’t any horses here till the white man came.......................

So it is NOT accurate.

[Redmen4ever]

Soon we will eliminate all references to Indians. Hope that’ll make them happy.

[SaveFerris]

(They want to erase our history, our culture, our traditions, Americana and ultimately us.)

Make way for the New World Order, Global Citizen.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How the Indians treated each other BEFORE the White Man arrived...

https://ournativeamericans.blogspot.com/2018/07/1300s-crow-creek-massacre-in-south.html

https://www.academia.edu/7907221/Mass_Grave_at_Crow_Creek_in_South_Dakota_Reveals_How_Indians_Massacred_Indians_in_14th_Century_Attack

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/massacre-sacred-ridge

https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/basketmaker-ii-cave-7-massacre-or-cemetery/

https://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/1991/12/01/scalping-victim/

https://prezi.com/z9ioohxrdgat/anasazi-cannibalism/?fallback=1

https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2013/09/11/new-research-supports-theory-of-ancient-massacre-site-in-utah

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39268873

https://www.historynet.com/when-the-sioux-ambushed-pawnee-hunters-at-massacre-canyon/

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/trail_dust/trail-dust-massacre-at-awatovi-is-little-known-act-of-genocide/article_7231e60b-9897-50bc-992d-8d5344685d4c.html

http://www.dickshovel.com/scalp.html

https://lostworlds.org/ancient-massacre-discovered-in-new-mexico-was-it-genocide/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/01/tower-human-skulls-mexico-city-aztec-sacrifices?CMP=share_btn_tw&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

https://www.archaeology.org/news/2269-140630-colorado-torture-evidence

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/sacrifice-victims-cahokia-were-locals-not-foreign-captives-003685

https://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/6098/t12010s_DAVIS_Ivy_SP2012.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=n

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1593823

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-find-evidence-torture-1200-year-old-massacre-180951922/

https://archive.archaeology.org/9709/newsbriefs/anasazi.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-skulls-not-crime-scene-human-sacrifice-ad-900/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexican-site-reveals-brutal-sacrifice-of-spanish-conquistadors/

https://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/parallel-life-and-death-1275-ad-massacred-gallina-and-vanishing-anasazi/

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/1988/02/28/trail-of-tears-death-toll-myths-dispelled/62660437007/

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SL002

http://blogoklahoma.us/place/117/kiowa/cutthroat-gap-massacre

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CU012

https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=CL003

[Chode]

OK, three dates? i am confusion...

[ealgeone]

I’m willing to bet it’s liberal white women/professors doing the crying.

[fwdude]

Like the flag, BTW; never saw it before. It’s a little busy, but nice.

I don't like flags with intricate seals. It's hard to see any of the details, and probably a lot harder to manufacture. Simple is best.

[hanamizu]

I, too, was thinking of St. George of Fentanyl, but I think something more along the line of this:
https://www.etsy.com/no-en/listing/819943705/saint-george-floyd-digitial-print-make

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Two things are wrong with that picture.

1. The lips in the picture are WAY too small. In reality those lips were so huge that they required their own casket.
    
2. You misspelled breeve. It's “I can't breeve.”

Despite my nit picking, that's a pretty good job.

[muir_redwoods]

Connecticut flag has a Latin motto. The Romans had slaves. It’s only a matter of time.

[ealgeone]

There wasn’t a lot of stuff here until Europeans showed up.

[SaveFerris]

How offensive!!

Farming BAREFOOT??

seems dangerous!!

[Pontiac]

My wife is a respiratory therapist and she tells me a man that can’t breath can’t talk.

[DeplorablePaul]

Woke is on a rampage to impose historical amnesia. They’re out of control.

[The Great RJ]

As a comrade in the Peoples Republic of Minnesota, I definitely think the hammer and sickle are very representative of the state. The dominate political party goes by the moniker of Democrat Farmer Labor Party hence the hammer and sickle are very symbolic as well.

This much maligned flag was carried proudly by Minnesota troops in the Civil War including on the battlefield of Gettysburg. Of course that heritage means nothing to the woke.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

These people are dumb AF.

[dkGba]

I see nothing racist there. Don’t these people ever object to being essentially erased?

[Steely Tom]

From the third article in your list:

As Potter and his colleagues tried to grasp what they had found, a question struck them: Why did the Pueblo, whose villages dotted southwestern Colorado’s 4-kilometer-long Ridges Basin, execute such a brutal, over-the-top massacre?

The events in question happened about 1200 years ago.