2019-12-25 Wed

The American Indian had maintained a good quality of internal tribal trade for more than a millennium. The Infrastructure of Native Americans had became the channel by which the exploration, settlement, and economic development in the colonial period. Later this trade route showed the way to European explorers and traders and marked the corridors for future east-west travel.

The United States of America had issued this commemorative one dollar in the year 2012 with the theme of Native America ‘Trade Routes in the 17th Century.’ The obverse of this coin depicts the bust of Sacagawea ( a Lemhi Shoshone woman), this design was first produced in the year 2000. The reverse of this coin depicts Native American and horse in profile with horses running in the background, representing the historical spread of the horse.

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