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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlogan, post: 1912468, member: 44612&quot;]from wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;On September 20, 2007, Public Law 110-82, known as the Native American $1 Coin Act, was signed by president <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" rel="nofollow">George W. Bush</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a> The act specified in part that the one dollar coin shall depict &quot;images celebrating 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.&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a> The act also called for the removal of the date from the obverse and &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_PLURIBUS_UNUM" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_PLURIBUS_UNUM" rel="nofollow">E PLURIBUS UNUM</a>&quot; from the reverse of the coin, opting instead to add them to the edge.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The program, <b><u>set to last until 2016,</u></b> requires that the reverse of the dollar depict a new design every year.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-nativeamericanact-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a> In order to determine which design to depict on the coins, officials from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Indian_Affairs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Indian_Affairs" rel="nofollow">United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs</a>, the Native American Caucus and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_American_Indians" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Congress_of_American_Indians" rel="nofollow">National Congress of American Indians</a>, the consulting organizations for the program, appoint a liaison to the United States Mint.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-designevaluation-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar#cite_note-designevaluation-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a> &quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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