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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?
(a) The betrayal of treaty promises.
(b) Need for social services.
(c) The Native American College system.
(d) Brotherhood with a similar history.

3. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They feel they owe taxes.
(b) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(c) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.
(d) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.

4. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?
(a) White Americans caring about the Indian People.
(b) The government caring about the Indian People.
(c) Anthopologists caring about the Indian People.
(d) The attempt of churches to appear relevant to the social needs of the 1960's.

5. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) People like you on sight.
(b) You get to live on a reservation.
(c) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.
(d) People are always interested in your "plight."

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

2. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

3. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?

4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

5. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

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