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Bush Signs Native American $1 Coin Act

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by Brad Jolly, Partner

September 24, 2007

On Thursday, September 20, President Bush signed the Native American $1 Coin Act into law. The Act provides for a new back to the Sacagawea dollar coin to honor Native Americans and their contributions to the United States. A new Indian person or contribution of Indian peoples will be approved each year. The front of the coin will still be of Sacagawea.

Each year, the Department of Treasury will approve a new design in consultation with the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the House Congressional Native American Caucus, the National Congress of American Indians, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

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