The United States Mint released images of the 2024 Native American $1 Coin. This coin’s design commemorates the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States without requiring them to forfeit their tribal identity.
Native American dollars feature annually changing reverses that celebrate contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States.
Designed and sculpted by U.S. Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill, the 2024 dollar’s reverse shows an eagle staff, an American Indian symbol of respect, honor, and patriotism, together with an American flag to represent the dual citizenship of Native Americans.
Around the image are inscriptions of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, and INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACTO OF 1924.
The design was selected from among 10 candidates with support from several stakeholders and was the second preference by the total vote count of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). The recommended design by the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) and the CCAC was candidate #8.
Authorized under Public Law 110-82 and introduced in 2009, the U.S. Mint’s Native American $1 Coin Program has celebrated:
- 2009 – Three Sisters Agriculture
- 2010 – Great Tree of Peace and the Iroquois Confederacy
- 2011 – Great Wampanoag Nation
- 2012 – Trade Routes
- 2013 – Treaty with the Delawares
- 2014 – Native Hospitality Ensured the Success of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 2015 – Contributions of the Kahnawake Mohawk and Mohawk Akwesasne communities to "high iron" construction work
- 2016 – Contributions of the Native American Code Talkers in World War I and World War II
- 2017 – Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee Syllabary
- 2018 – Sports legend Jim Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox tribe
- 2019 – Mary Golda Ross, the first known Native American female engineer, and a space-walking astronaut symbolic of Native American astronauts
- 2020 – Elizabeth Peratrovich for her contributions to the passage of the 1945 Anti-Discrimination Law by the Alaskan territorial government
- 2021 – Honoring the service of American Indians in the U.S. military
- 2022 – Honoring Ely Samuel Parker, a U.S. Army officer, engineer, and tribal diplomat
- 2023 – Honoring ballerina Maria Tallchief and American Indians in ballet
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Common Obverse Design
Obverses (heads side) of Native American $1 Coins share the same portrait of "Sacagawea" as designed by sculptor Glenna Goodacre. The familiar image has been around since the Sacagawea golden dollar debuted in 2000. Inscriptions around Sacagawea read LIBERTY and IN GOD WE TRUST.
An edge inscription indicates the year of issue, mint mark, and the motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM."
Upcoming U.S. Mint 2024 Dollar Products
Native American dollars have not been released into circulation since 2011. The U.S. Mint manufactures them solely for its numismatic products sold here.
The first U.S. Mint products with 2024-dated Native American dollars will be available for order on Jan. 29. Options will include 25-coin rolls, 100-coin bags, and 250-coin boxes containing circulating-quality dollars produced at U.S. Mint production facilities in Denver and Philadelphia.
