1 Dollar Osage tribes

The Jamul Indian Village is a Kumeyaay band located near San Diego — which makes this coin's Osage attribution immediately curious. Under the 2000 Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act and subsequent tribal gaming compacts, some smaller California bands have issued dollar tokens honoring tribes outside their own nation, a practice with no formal regulatory oversight from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Whether this piece circulated as a genuine exchange medium within any tribal enterprise or was produced primarily for the collector market is the more honest question to ask before pricing it.