1 Dollar 'Native American Dollar' Wampanoag Treaty

The 2011 Native American Dollar commemorates the 1621 treaty between the Wampanoag and the Plymouth colonists — one of the few early colonial agreements that held for several decades before deteriorating into King Philip's War in 1675. That conflict, proportionally one of the deadliest wars in American history, effectively ended Wampanoag political independence in southern New England.

The Native American Dollar series was mandated by the Native American $1 Coin Act of 2007, which requires a new reverse design annually. Edge lettering carries the date and mint mark, a production detail that caused early strikes to occasionally show weak or missing edge inscriptions — a known quality control issue across the Presidential and Native American dollar programs.