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Commemorate Natives on $2 bills

Story Published: Oct 12, 2009

Story Updated: Oct 9, 2009

The U.S. Mint has issued commemorative state quarters as well as Susan B. Anthony, Sacajawea and presidential dollar coins.

I would suggest issuing $2 bills to commemorate various Native American Indians, the list would be endless, and might encourage the use of the $2 bill.

An excellent source of information would be the Reader’s Digest book “Through Indian Eyes: The Untold Story of Native American Peoples” issued in 1995. It is in the Library of Congress and is quite comprehensive.

This letter was e-mailed to 73 tribes and mailed to 110. Please share this letter with your people and other tribes and encourage them to write their senators and representatives in Congress.

I thought of this after watching the series “We Shall Remain” on PBS. I have also written to the White House requesting that President Andrew Jackson be removed from the $20 bill because of what he did to the Indians of the Southeast.


– Ron McCarver
Choctaw
Kenosha, Wis.

Thursday, Oct 22 at 7:12 PM Longwind wrote ...

I go along with removing andrew Jackson off the twenty dollar bill. The congress makes changes in the dollars color so they need to make changes in the people. That twenty dollar bill with andrew Jackson it symbolize the 20,000 natives and blacks that were on that trail and there were many more

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