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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) 10.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 30.

2. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
(a) Start a national newspaper.
(b) Band together.
(c) Elect their own president.
(d) Elect their own congress.

3. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(b) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(c) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(d) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.

4. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?
(a) They understand Indians.
(b) They donate to Indian colleges.
(c) They have friends who are Indians.
(d) They ARE Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?

2. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?

3. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?

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

5. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

(see the answer key)

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