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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2358 

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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 17, 2007 

Mr. KILDEE (for himself, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, Mr. BOREN, Mr. 

RENZI, and Mr. COLE of Oklahoma) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Native American $1 

5 Coin Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. NATIVE AMERICAN $1 COIN PROGRAM. 

2 Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is 

3 amended by adding at the end the following: 

4 ‘‘(r) REDESIGN AND ISSUANCE OF CIRCULATING $1 

5 COINS HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPOR6 TANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND IN7 DIVIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS IN UNITED STATES HIS8 TORY.— 

9 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.— 

10 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective beginning 

11 January 1, 2008, notwithstanding subsection 

12 (d), in addition to the coins to be issued pursu13 ant to subsection (n), and in accordance with 

14 this subsection, the Secretary shall mint and 

15 issue $1 coins that— 

16 ‘‘(i) have as the designs on the ob17 verse the so-called ‘Sakakawea design’; and 

18 ‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse se19 lected in accordance with paragraph 

20 (2)(A), subject to paragraph (3)(A). 

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

22 enactment of the Native American $1 Coin Act 

23 is after July 31, 2007, subparagraph (A) shall 

24 be applied by substituting ‘2009’ for ‘2008’. 


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1 ‘‘(2) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.—The $1 coins 

2 issued in accordance with paragraph (1) shall meet 

3 the following design requirements: 

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

5 reverse shall bear— 

6 ‘‘(i) images celebrating the important 

7 contributions made by Indian tribes and 

8 individual Native Americans to the devel9 opment of the United States and the his10 tory of the United States; 

11 ‘‘(ii) the inscription ‘$1’ ; and 

12 ‘‘(iii) the inscription ‘United States of 

13 America’. 

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

15 obverse shall— 

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

17 consultation with the Commission of Fine 

18 Arts and review by the Citizens Coinage 

19 Advisory Committee; and 

20 ‘‘(ii) contain the so-called ‘Sakakawea 

21 design’ and the inscription ‘Liberty’. 

22 ‘‘(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.— 

23 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The inscription of 

24 the year of minting and issuance of the 

25 coin and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus 


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1 Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be 

2 edge-incused into the coin. 

3 ‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION OF DISTINCTIVE

4 EDGE.—The edge-incusing of the inscrip5 tions under clause (i) on coins issued 

6 under this subsection shall be done in a 

7 manner that preserves the distinctive edge 

8 of the coin so that the denomination of the 

9 coin is readily discernible, including by in10 dividuals who are blind or visually im11 paired. 

12 ‘‘(D) REVERSE DESIGN SELECTION.—The 

13 designs selected for the reverse of the coins de14 scribed under this subsection— 

15 ‘‘(i) shall be chosen by the Secretary 

16 after consultation with the Committee on 

17 Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congres18 sional Native American Caucus of the 

19 House of Representatives, the Commission 

20 of Fine Arts, and the National Congress of 

21 American Indians; 

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

23 Coinage Advisory Committee; 

24 ‘‘(iii) may depict individuals and 

25 events such as— 


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1 ‘‘(I) the creation of Cherokee 

2 written language; 

3 ‘‘(II) the Iroquois Confederacy; 

4 ‘‘(III) Wampanoag Chief 

5 Massasoit; 

6 ‘‘(IV) the ‘Pueblo Revolt’; 

7 ‘‘(V) Olympian Jim Thorpe; 

8 ‘‘(VI) Ely S. Parker, a general 

9 on the staff of General Ulysses S. 

10 Grant and later head of the Bureau of 

11 Indian Affairs; and 

12 ‘‘(VII) code talkers who served 

13 the United States Armed Forces dur14 ing World War I and World War II; 

15 and 

16 ‘‘(iv) in the case of a design depicting 

17 the contribution of an individual Native 

18 American to the development of the United 

19 States and the history of the United 

20 States, shall not depict the individual in a 

21 size such that the coin could be considered 

22 to be a ‘2-headed’ coin. 

23 ‘‘(3) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 1

24 NATIVE AMERICAN EVENT DURING EACH YEAR.— 


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

2 reverse of the $1 coins issued during each year 

3 shall be emblematic of 1 important Native 

4 American or Native American contribution each 

5 year. 

6 ‘‘(B) ISSUANCE PERIOD.—Each $1 coin 

7 minted with a design on the reverse in accord8 ance with this subsection for any year shall be 

9 issued during the 1-year period beginning on 

10 January 1 of that year and shall be available 

11 throughout the entire 1-year period. 

12 ‘‘(C) ORDER OF ISSUANCE OF DESIGNS.— 

13 Each coin issued under this subsection com14 memorating Native Americans and their con15 tributions— 

16 ‘‘(i) shall be issued, to the maximum 

17 extent practicable, in the chronological 

18 order in which the Native Americans lived 

19 or the events occurred, until the termi20 nation of the coin program described in 

21 subsection (n); and 

22 ‘‘(ii) thereafter shall be issued in any 

23 order determined to be appropriate by the 

24 Secretary, after consultation with the Com25 mittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the 


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1 Congressional Native American Caucus of 

2 the House of Representatives, and the Na3 tional Congress of American Indians. 

4 ‘‘(4) ISSUANCE OF NUMISMATIC COINS.—The 

5 Secretary may mint and issue such number of $1 

6 coins of each design selected under this subsection 

7 in uncirculated and proof qualities as the Secretary 

8 determines to be appropriate. 

9 ‘‘(5) QUANTITY.—The number of $1 coins 

10 minted and issued in a year with the Sakakawea-de11 sign on the obverse shall be not less than 20 percent 

12 of the total number of $1 coins minted and issued 

13 in such year.’’. 

14 SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 

15 Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is 

16 amended— 

17 (1) in subsection (n)(1)— 

18 (A) by striking the paragraph designation 

19 and heading and all that follows through ‘‘Not20 withstanding subsection (d)’’ and inserting the 

21 following: 

22 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2007.—Notwith23 standing subsection (d)’’; 

24 (B) by striking subparagraph (B); and 


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1 (C) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as 

2 subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and 

3 indenting the subparagraphs appropriately; 

4 (2) in subsection (n), by striking ‘‘Sacagawea5 design’’ each place such term appears and inserting 

6 ‘‘Sakakawea-design’’; and 

7 (3) in paragraphs (3)(C) and (5) of subsection 

8 (p), by striking ‘‘Sacagawea-design’’ each place such 

9 term appears and inserting ‘‘Sakakawea-design’’. 

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

11 COIN. 

12 (a) IN GENERAL.—In order to remove barriers to cir13 culation, the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out an 

14 aggressive, cost-effective, continuing campaign to encour15 age commercial enterprises to accept and dispense $1 

16 coins that have as designs on the obverse the so-called 

17 ‘‘Sakakawea design’’. 

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

19 submit to Congress an annual report on the success of 

20 the efforts described in subsection (a). 

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