I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2358 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue coins in commemo-
ration 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 indi-
vidual 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 Representa-
tives 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’’. 
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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 HONORING NATIVE AMERICANS AND THE IMPOR-
TANT CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY INDIAN TRIBES AND IN-
DIVIDUAL NATIVE AMERICANS IN UNITED STATES HIS-
TORY.— 
‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING IN 2008.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Effective beginning 
January 1, 2008, notwithstanding subsection 
(d), in addition to the coins to be issued pursu-
ant 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 ob-
verse the so-called ‘Sakakawea design’; and 
‘‘(ii) have a design on the reverse se-
lected 
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 July 31, 2007, subparagraph (A) shall 
be applied by substituting ‘2009’ for ‘2008’. 
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‘‘(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 devel-
opment of the United States and the his-
tory 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— 
‘‘(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 ‘Sakakawea 
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 
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Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be 
edge-incused into the coin. 
‘‘(ii) PRESERVATION OF DISTINCTIVE 
EDGE.—The edge-incusing of the inscrip-
tions 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 in-
dividuals who are blind or visually im-
paired. 
‘‘(D) REVERSE DESIGN SELECTION.—The 
designs selected for the reverse of the coins de-
scribed under this subsection— 
‘‘(i) shall be chosen by the Secretary 
after consultation with the Committee on 
Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congres-
sional 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— 
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‘‘(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 dur-
ing 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.— 
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‘‘(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 accord-
ance 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. 
‘‘(C) ORDER OF ISSUANCE OF DESIGNS.— 
Each coin issued under this subsection com-
memorating Native Americans and their con-
tributions— 
‘‘(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 termi-
nation 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 Com-
mittee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the 
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