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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?
(a) The Sioux.
(b) The Cherokees.
(c) The Kiowa.
(d) The Senecas.

2. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(b) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(c) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.
(d) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.

3. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) Nothing, it still exists.
(b) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(c) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(d) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.

4. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?
(a) To be in church on Sundays.
(b) To pray.
(c) To tend to the sick.
(d) To share one's goods.

5. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Fairness.
(b) Paternalism.
(c) Greed.
(d) Racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

2. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?

3. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

4. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

5. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

(see the answer key)

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