LaToya Cantrell has tweaked the official city seal----darkens the skin of the 2 figures

I can’t believe it. We’ve finally erased centuries of oppression. LaToya is a hero.

Please tell me no one is surprised

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The two darkened individuals represent Native Americans

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Yeah ok

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The seal looks unchanged, except that two figures featured on it now have brown skin, darkened from a lighter, palish color – and the blue field on the outside appears to have been darkened as well.

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More than those colors have changed. Pretty much every color has changed on it.

What is depicted on the shield thing between the two people? Looks like mountains or something with a sea creature coming out of water.

I wonder what the catering situation was like for the city seal task force

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What is depicted on the shield thing between the two people?

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Although records conflict insofar as the symbolic meaning of the figures on the seal, it is generally agreed that there is just one meaning of the starts which surround the figures. The 12 stars in the outer circle on top of the seal and the one start in the center represent the 13 original states admitted to the Union; the 12 stars in the inner circle represent the 12 states admitted to the Union from 1791 to 1836; and the 3 stars on each side of the seal represent the six states admitted to the Union from 1837 to 1850.

The city seal, in much its present design, dates from February 17, 1805, at which time the Legislative Council of the Territory of Orleans authorized the Mayor of New Orleans to procure and use a seal on all official acts and documents. Although a complete and official description of the seal and a explanation of its symbolism are lacking, the "New Orleans City Guide", 1938, offers the following explanation: "Below and partly within the semicircular inscription 'City of New Orleans' an Indian brace and maiden stand on each side of the shield, upon which a recumbent nude figure is shown saluting the sun rising above mountains and sea. Above the shield are twenty-five circularly grouped stars, and below, an alligator."

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Legend has it that the two main figures in the seal are two Indians, male and female, representing the first inhabitants of New Orleans. In the shield in the center of the seal are represented three wigwams, while on the top of the wigwams the sun's rays are shown, representing the warm climate of Louisiana and its radiant sun. Between the two wigwams, Father Mississippi is allegorically represented by Neptune, the mythological god of the waters and the sea. However, it is here in legend that the records differ. The New Orleans City Guide researchers do not identify the recumbent nude figure as Father Mississippi, but rather leave that figure unidentified. The alligator at the bottom of the seal represents the typical New Orleans marshes and swampland which is the natural habitat of these saurians.

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How long before NOLA is abandoned?

What is that baw in the middle doing?