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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?
(a) A series on Custer.
(b) A series on Lewis and Clark.
(c) A series on Davy Crockett.
(d) A series on Kennedy.

3. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) The United States Government.
(b) The Reorganization Act.
(c) White America.
(d) The Indians.

4. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1955.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1934.

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 frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?

2. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?

3. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?

4. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

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

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