PUBLIC LAW 110–82—SEPT. 20, 2007 121 STAT. 777 

Public Law 110–82 

110th Congress 

An Act 

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in commemoration 

of Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes 

and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and 

the history of the United States, and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American $1 Coin Act’’. 

SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COIN PROGRAM. 

Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 

adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(r) REDESIGN AND ISSUANCE OF CIRCULATING $1 COINS HON- ORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS

MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND INDIVIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS IN

UNITED STATES HISTORY.— 

‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning January 1, 2008, 

notwithstanding subsection (d), in addition to the coins 

to be issued pursuant to subsection (n), and in accordance 

with this subsection, the Secretary shall mint and issue 

$1 coins that— 

‘‘(i) have as the designs on the obverse the socalled ‘Sacagawea design’; and 

‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse selected in 

accordance with paragraph (2)(A), subject to paragraph 

(3)(A). 

‘‘(B) DELAYED DATE.—If the date of the enactment of 

the Native American $1 Coin Act is after August 25, 2007, 

subparagraph (A) shall be applied by substituting ‘2009’ 

for ‘2008’. 

‘‘(2) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.—The $1 coins issued in accordance with paragraph (1) shall meet the following design requirements: 

‘‘(A) COIN REVERSE.—The design on the reverse shall 

bear— 

‘‘(i) images celebrating the important contributions 

made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans 

to the development of the United States and the history 

of the United States; 

‘‘(ii) the inscription ‘$1’; and 

‘‘(iii) the inscription ‘United States of America’. 

‘‘(B) COIN OBVERSE.—The design on the obverse shall— 

Applicability. 

Native American 

$1 Coin Act. 

31 USC 5101 

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‘‘(i) be chosen by the Secretary, after consultation 

with the Commission of Fine Arts and review by the 

Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee; and 

‘‘(ii) contain the so-called ‘Sacagawea design’ and 

the inscription ‘Liberty’. 

‘‘(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.— 

‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The inscription of the year of 

minting and issuance of the coin and the inscriptions 

‘E Pluribus Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be 

edge-incused into the coin. 

‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION OF DISTINCTIVE EDGE.—The 

edge-incusing of the inscriptions under clause (i) on 

coins issued under this subsection shall be done in 

a manner that preserves the distinctive edge of the 

coin so that the denomination of the coin is readily 

discernible, including by individuals who are blind or 

visually impaired. 

‘‘(D) REVERSE DESIGN SELECTION.—The designs selected 

for the reverse of the coins described under this subsection— 

‘‘(i) shall be chosen by the Secretary after consultation with the Committee on Indian Affairs of the 

Senate, the Congressional Native American Caucus of 

the House of Representatives, the Commission of Fine 

Arts, and the National Congress of American Indians; 

‘‘(ii) shall be reviewed by the Citizens Coinage 

Advisory Committee; 

‘‘(iii) may depict individuals and events such as— 

‘‘(I) the creation of Cherokee written language; 

‘‘(II) the Iroquois Confederacy; 

‘‘(III) Wampanoag Chief Massasoit; 

‘‘(IV) the ‘Pueblo Revolt’; 

‘‘(V) Olympian Jim Thorpe; 

‘‘(VI) Ely S. Parker, a general on the staff 

of General Ulysses S. Grant and later head of 

the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and 

‘‘(VII) code talkers who served the United 

States Armed Forces during World War I and 

World War II; and 

‘‘(iv) in the case of a design depicting the contribution of an individual Native American to the development of the United States and the history of the United 

States, shall not depict the individual in a size such 

that the coin could be considered to be a ‘2-headed’ 

coin. 

‘‘(3) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 1 NATIVE AMERICAN EVENT DURING EACH YEAR.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each design for the reverse of the 

$1 coins issued during each year shall be emblematic of 

1 important Native American or Native American contribution each year. 

‘‘(B) ISSUANCE PERIOD.—Each $1 coin minted with a 

design on the reverse in accordance with this subsection 

for any year shall be issued during the 1-year period beginning on January 1 of that year and shall be available 

throughout the entire 1-year period. 


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‘‘(C) ORDER OF ISSUANCE OF DESIGNS.—Each coin issued 

under this subsection commemorating Native Americans 

and their contributions— 

‘‘(i) shall be issued, to the maximum extent practicable, in the chronological order in which the Native 

Americans lived or the events occurred, until the termination of the coin program described in subsection 

(n); and 

‘‘(ii) thereafter shall be issued in any order determined to be appropriate by the Secretary, after consultation with the Committee on Indian Affairs of the 

Senate, the Congressional Native American Caucus of 

the House of Representatives, and the National Congress of American Indians. 

‘‘(4) ISSUANCE OF NUMISMATIC COINS.—The Secretary may mint and issue such number of $1 coins of each design selected 

under this subsection in uncirculated and proof qualities as 

the Secretary determines to be appropriate. 

‘‘(5) QUANTITY.—The number of $1 coins minted and issued 

in a year with the Sacagawea-design on the obverse shall 

be not less than 20 percent of the total number of $1 coins 

minted and issued in such year.’’. 

SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 

Section 5112(n)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended— 

(1) by striking the paragraph designation and heading and 

all that follows through ‘‘Notwithstanding subsection (d)’’ and 

inserting the following: 

‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2007.—Notwithstanding subsection (d)’’; 

(2) by striking subparagraph (B); and 

(3) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs 

(A) and (B), respectively, and indenting the subparagraphs 

appropriately. 

SEC. 4. REMOVAL OF BARRIERS TO CIRCULATION OF $1 COIN. 

(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to remove barriers to circulation, 

the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out an aggressive, costeffective, continuing campaign to encourage commercial enterprises 

to accept and dispense $1 coins that have as designs on the obverse 

the so-called ‘‘Sacagawea design’’. 

31 USC 5112 

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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2358: 

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 153 (2007): 

June 12, considered and passed House. 

Aug. 3, considered and passed Senate, amended. 

Sept. 4, House concurred in Senate amendment. 

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(b) REPORT.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to 

Congress an annual report on the success of the efforts described 

in subsection (a). 

Approved September 20, 2007. 


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