| From ClassBrain.com SD State Symbols
"The design of the Great Seal of South Dakota is provided for in Article XXI of the State Constitution. It bears the motto: "Under God the People Rule" and the year in which the state was admitted to the Union, 1889. The seal serves as a symbol of life in South Dakota. The plowman and the field of corn symbolizes farming, the smelting furnace depicts the mining industry, the cattle feeding on the plain represents ranching and dairying, the steamboat designates transportation and commerce, the trees indicate lumbering, the building portrays manufacturing, the river denotes the Mis- souri River, and the hills in the background identify the Black Hills." Quoted from the South Dakota Blue Book © Copyright 2004 by ClassBrain.com |
