In 2009, the United States Mint began minting and issuing $1 coins featuring designs celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States. The Native American $1 Coin Program is authorised by the Native American $1 Coin Act.and has a changing reverse design each year and a common obverse design featuring Sacagawea.
Native American $1 Coins have a distinctive edge and are golden in colour. Each coin’s reverse design and its order of release are determined by the Secretary of the Treasury after consulting with the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, the Congressional Native American Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Congress of American Indians, and after public review by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.
