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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?
(a) That Indian tribes had great schools.
(b) That Indian tribes were flourishing.
(c) That Indian tribes were unifying.
(d) That Indian tribes were in the final stages of demise.

3. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.
(b) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(c) Nothing, it still exists.
(d) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.

4. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The League of American Indian Voters.
(b) The Native American Baseball League.
(c) The Women's American Indian League.
(d) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.

5. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They divided the church territories.
(b) They helped establish state lines.
(c) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(d) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

2. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

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

4. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?

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

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