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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?
(a) Defending marriages on the Cherokee Reservation performed by Native American Ministers.
(b) Defending water rights for the Cherokee Nation.
(c) Defending hunting and treaty rights of the Cherokee.
(d) Defending school financing on the Cherokee Reservation.

4. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.
(b) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(c) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(d) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.

5. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their aunt's.
(b) Their grandfathers.
(c) Their uncle's.
(d) Their grandmother's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

2. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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