While these look cool, I can't help but be disturbed at the rewriting of American history through our very own currency.
First of all, on a somehwat different note, why are they making new nickels when they already redesigned the back just about a year ago?...
More importantly, notice how on the second redesigned back (of the old, new nickels) you see the joining of colonial and Amer. Indian hands, and the joining of the axe and the peace pipe, rewriting the gruesome American history of genocide - one of the most successful ever undertaken - of the American Indians.
Then we get to the NEW new nickels. Attractive indeed, however I can't help but find it amusing that we apparently feel as if we have the right to put a buffalo on our currency. Nevermind the fact that we slaughtered the buffalo to near extinction so as to remove the Amer. Indians primary source of food and assist in our genocide.
Short point: Buffalos and American Indians have absolutely nothing to do with the POSITIVE background of our American heritage. I see no difference between putting the buffalo and Amer. Indians on our coins and putting slaves on our coins, aside for the fact we've written that sad stage of our history OUT of history trough governmental control of what we are taught.
EDIT: At least history is not hidden from the observant. As I read on another site, "Under the Buffalo is the phrase, 'e pluribus unum', which of course means 'out of many, one'. Sad that this is fitting for the American Bison."