IIB 

110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2358 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 13, 2007 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs 

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. 


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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’’. 

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

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

8 amended by adding at the end the following: 

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

10 COINS HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPOR11 TANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND IN12 DIVIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS IN UNITED STATES HIS13 TORY.— 

14 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.— 

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

16 January 1, 2008, notwithstanding subsection 

17 (d), in addition to the coins to be issued pursu18 ant to subsection (n), and in accordance with 

19 this subsection, the Secretary shall mint and 

20 issue $1 coins that— 

21 ‘‘(i) have as the designs on the ob22 verse the so-called ‘Sakakawea design’; and 

23 ‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse se24 lected in accordance with paragraph 

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


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

2 enactment of the Native American $1 Coin Act 

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

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

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

6 issued in accordance with paragraph (1) shall meet 

7 the following design requirements: 

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

9 reverse shall bear— 

10 ‘‘(i) images celebrating the important 

11 contributions made by Indian tribes and 

12 individual Native Americans to the devel13 opment of the United States and the his14 tory of the United States; 

15 ‘‘(ii) the inscription ‘$1’ ; and 

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

17 America’. 

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

19 obverse shall— 

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

21 consultation with the Commission of Fine 

22 Arts and review by the Citizens Coinage 

23 Advisory Committee; and 

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

25 design’ and the inscription ‘Liberty’. 


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1 ‘‘(C) EDGE-INCUSED INSCRIPTIONS.— 

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

3 the year of minting and issuance of the 

4 coin and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus 

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

6 edge-incused into the coin. 

7 ‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION OF DISTINCTIVE

8 EDGE.—The edge-incusing of the inscrip9 tions under clause (i) on coins issued 

10 under this subsection shall be done in a 

11 manner that preserves the distinctive edge 

12 of the coin so that the denomination of the 

13 coin is readily discernible, including by in14 dividuals who are blind or visually im15 paired. 

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

17 designs selected for the reverse of the coins de18 scribed under this subsection— 

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

20 after consultation with the Committee on 

21 Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congres22 sional Native American Caucus of the 

23 House of Representatives, the Commission 

24 of Fine Arts, and the National Congress of 

25 American Indians; 


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

2 Coinage Advisory Committee; 

3 ‘‘(iii) may depict individuals and 

4 events such as— 

5 ‘‘(I) the creation of Cherokee 

6 written language; 

7 ‘‘(II) the Iroquois Confederacy; 

8 ‘‘(III) Wampanoag Chief 

9 Massasoit; 

10 ‘‘(IV) the ‘Pueblo Revolt’; 

11 ‘‘(V) Olympian Jim Thorpe; 

12 ‘‘(VI) Ely S. Parker, a general 

13 on the staff of General Ulysses S. 

14 Grant and later head of the Bureau of 

15 Indian Affairs; and 

16 ‘‘(VII) code talkers who served 

17 the United States Armed Forces dur18 ing World War I and World War II; 

19 and 

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

21 the contribution of an individual Native 

22 American to the development of the United 

23 States and the history of the United 

24 States, shall not depict the individual in a 


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1 size such that the coin could be considered 

2 to be a ‘2-headed’ coin. 

3 ‘‘(3) ISSUANCE OF COINS COMMEMORATING 1

4 NATIVE AMERICAN EVENT DURING EACH YEAR.— 

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

6 reverse of the $1 coins issued during each year 

7 shall be emblematic of 1 important Native 

8 American or Native American contribution each 

9 year. 

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

11 minted with a design on the reverse in accord12 ance with this subsection for any year shall be 

13 issued during the 1-year period beginning on 

14 January 1 of that year and shall be available 

15 throughout the entire 1-year period. 

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

17 Each coin issued under this subsection com18 memorating Native Americans and their con19 tributions— 

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

21 extent practicable, in the chronological 

22 order in which the Native Americans lived 

23 or the events occurred, until the termi24 nation of the coin program described in 

25 subsection (n); and 


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

2 order determined to be appropriate by the 

3 Secretary, after consultation with the Com4 mittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the 

5 Congressional Native American Caucus of 

6 the House of Representatives, and the Na7 tional Congress of American Indians. 

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

9 Secretary may mint and issue such number of $1 

10 coins of each design selected under this subsection 

11 in uncirculated and proof qualities as the Secretary 

12 determines to be appropriate. 

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

14 minted and issued in a year with the Sakakawea-de15 sign on the obverse shall be not less than 20 percent 

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

17 in such year.’’. 

18 SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 

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

20 amended— 

21 (1) in subsection (n)(1)— 

22 (A) by striking the paragraph designation 

23 and heading and all that follows through ‘‘Not24 withstanding subsection (d)’’ and inserting the 

25 following: 


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1 ‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2007.—Notwith2 standing subsection (d)’’; 

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

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

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

6 indenting the subparagraphs appropriately; 

7 (2) in subsection (n), by striking ‘‘Sacagawea8 design’’ each place such term appears and inserting 

9 ‘‘Sakakawea-design’’; and 

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

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

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

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

14 COIN. 

15 (a) IN GENERAL.—In order to remove barriers to cir16 culation, the Secretary of the Treasury shall carry out an 

17 aggressive, cost-effective, continuing campaign to encour18 age commercial enterprises to accept and dispense $1 

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

20 ‘‘Sakakawea design’’. 


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

2 submit to Congress an annual report on the success of 

3 the efforts described in subsection (a). 

Passed the House of Representatives June 12, 2007. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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