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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The Native American Baseball League.
(b) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(c) The League of American Indian Voters.
(d) The Women's American Indian League.

2. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(b) To get them better hospitals and roads.
(c) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(d) To move them to Missouri.

3. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) Indians should be abolished.
(b) All land should be taken from Indians.
(c) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(d) Indians should be compensated for land loss.

4. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $6 million.
(c) $1.5 million.
(d) $500 thousand.

5. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Gold.
(c) 135 million acres of land.
(d) Horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?

2. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

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

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?

5. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?

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