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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 Indians.
(b) White America.
(c) The United States Government.
(d) The Reorganization Act.

2. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
(b) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
(c) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.
(d) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.

3. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.
(b) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(c) Get them health care as quickly as possible.
(d) Get their land as quickly as possible.

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Treaty rights.
(d) Water.

5. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) 1756.
(c) Pre-Columbian days.
(d) 1885.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

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

4. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?

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

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