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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they need more study of American Indians.
(b) That they know very little about Indians.
(c) That they know the ultimate truth.
(d) That they need more time with Indians.

2. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.
(b) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(c) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.
(d) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.

3. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Herding rights.
(b) National Park rights.
(c) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(d) Hunting and water rights.

4. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National War Survivors of America.
(b) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.
(c) The National Land Rights Owners.
(d) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.

5. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.
(d) That the tribes rent land from the government.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

3. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?

4. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?

5. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?

(see the answer key)

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