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| Issuer | Jamul Indian Village (Native American tribes) |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of a large arrowhead-shaped tribal shield overlaid diagonally by a ceremonial lance or coup stick adorned with feathers, rendered in relief against a smooth field. Two additional feathers flank the central motif symmetrically on either side. The legend JAMUL SOVEREIGN NATION curves along the upper periphery, while NATIVE INDIAN NATIONS IN AMERICA arcs along the lower periphery, both inscribed in a stylized Latin script evocative of Native American artistic tradition. |
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| Obverse lettering | Jamul Sovereign Nation Native Indian Nations In America |
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The Jamul Indian Village is a small Kumeyaay band located near San Diego — yet this quarter was issued under the U.S. Mint's Native American tribal series framework, which has created occasional misattributions in dealer inventory. The Osage Nation, whose history this piece commemorates, is based in northeastern Oklahoma and traces its federal recognition to the 1906 Osage Allotment Act, one of the most fiercely contested land agreements of the allotment period.
The Osage retained mineral rights beneath their lands — a legal peculiarity that made them extraordinarily wealthy after oil was discovered in 1897, and subsequently targets of systematic murder during the Osage Reign of Terror in the 1920s.