Honor Native American contributions with this low mintage series. This year commemorates the alliance between the Wampanoag tribe and the European settlers.
In the spring of 1621, Ousamequin, the Massasoit (a title meaning head chief) of the Wampanoag Indians, made a formal treaty with the English who settled at Patuxet (in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts). The document might well be the first written treaty between an indigenous people and European settlers in what is now the U.S. It consisted of six provisions, recorded in William Bradford’s “History of Plimoth Plantation.”
Massasoit promised to defend the Plymouth settlers against hostile tribes in return for their intervention if his people were attacked. His intermediaries—Tisquantum, Samoset and Hobbamack—gave the settlers invaluable tips on survival.
- Special proof strike minted in low quantities
- Minted at the U.S. Mint at San Francisco
