2024 1 oz Ag NATB Delaware Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge (Color)

• Contains 1 oz of .999 fine silver.
• Extremely limited mintage of 1,000 coins.
• Comes in a capsule with mint box and a certificate of authenticity.
• Obverse: The weight, purity, country of issue and the bald eagle emblem surrounded by a native star design.
• Reverse: Features migratory geese in the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge.
• This coin is authorized by the federally recognized sovereign nation of Mesa Grande.

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About Native America the Beautiful
This series was created to remember forgotten tribes and further the education of how native culture is intertwined into today’s America. It is important that the legacy of the Native Americans is not forgotten. These people lived prosperously in the untamed lands for centuries. With a mintage of just 1,000, collectors can be sure about the rarity of this inspiring set as we walk through history around the nation and celebrate the 50 states like never before. Check out these and more from the Native American Mint.

About Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge
The Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,978 acres National Wildlife Refuge located along the eastern coast of Kent County, Delaware, United States, on Delaware Bay. The refuge protects wildlife of all kinds, with emphasis on all migratory birds.

Known to the Native American as Canaresse, meaning "at the thickets," and later referred to as Ruyge-Bosje, meaning "shaggy bushes" or thicket, Bombay Hook received its final name from the corruption of the Dutch "Boompjes" or "Boompjes Hoeck" meaning "little-tree point." In 1679 Mechacksett, chief of Kahansink sold Bombay Hook wetlands to Peter Bayard, an early Dutch settler. The price for the area was one gun, four handfuls of powder, three waistcoats, one anker of liquor, and one kettle.

The historically Algonquian-speaking Delaware refer to themselves as Lenni Lenape. At first European contact in the early 17th century, the tribe lived along the Delaware River, named for Lord de la Warr.

The Delaware nation was the first to sign a treaty with the new United States. They signed the treaty on the September 17, 1778. Despite the treaty, the Delaware were forced to cede their Eastern lands and moved first to Ohio, later Indiana (Plainfield),Missouri, Kansas, and Indian Territory. The ancestors of the Delaware Nation, following a different migration route, settled in Anadarko. Other Delaware bands moved north with the Iroquois after the American Revolutionary War to form two reserves in Ontario, Canada.

Traditionally the Delaware were divided into the Munsee, Unami, and Unalachtigo, three social divisions determined by language and location.