The federal government’s announcement that some new faces are going to appear on the currency is a welcome one. It’s about time women other than Martha Washington got their place in the product line of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Ditto for other distinguished Americans, including national icons such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But haven’t we forgotten some other faces?
At present, no Native American is portrayed on our paper money. It was not always thus. Running Antelope (1821-96), a principal chief of the Hunkpapa Tribe of Lakota Indians, was depicted on the Series 1899 five-dollar silver certificate. It was a very handsome banknote indeed, but it is one that few Americans alive today—other than paper money collectors—have seen or ever will.
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