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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(b) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.
(c) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(d) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.

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

3. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) Mayans.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
(d) Russians.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?

5. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

(see the answer key)

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