State Motto - L’etoile du Nord
L’etoile du Nord became the state motto in 1861.
L’etoile du Nord (translation: “Star of the North”) was adopted formally as the official state motto in 1861. Henry Sibley selected this motto to be used on the state seal and the Legislature approved both the seal and the motto at the same time.
Laws of Minnesota 1861, Chapter 43.
State Symbols
- State Bird - Loon
- State Drink - Milk
- State Fish - Walleye
- State Flag
- State Seal
- State Song - Hail! Minnesota
- State Fruit - Honeycrisp Apple
- State Butterfly - Monarch
- State Flower - Pink Lady's Slipper
- State Gemstone - Agate
- State Grain - Wild Rice
- State Muffin - Blueberry
- State Mushroom - Morel
- State Photograph - Grace
- State Sport - Ice Hockey
- State Tree- Norway Pine
- State Soil - Lester
- State Motto - L’etoile du Nord
- State Bee - Rusty Patched Bumblebee