1 Cent Susquehannock tribes

The Jamul Indian Village, a federally recognized Kumeyaay band located in San Diego County, California, has no historical connection to the Susquehannock — a people indigenous to the Susquehanna River valley of Pennsylvania and Maryland, effectively destroyed as a political entity by the 1670s through a combination of Haudenosaunee warfare and colonial violence. That geographic and cultural distance makes the choice of subject unusual enough to note without explanation readily available in public record.

Native American tribes with federal recognition have been permitted to issue legal tender coinage through agreements with licensing entities since the 1990s, though these pieces are produced privately and see no meaningful circulation.