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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?
(a) The Apache.
(b) The Cherokee.
(c) The Choctaw.
(d) The Zuni.

2. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Racism.
(b) Fairness.
(c) Greed.
(d) Paternalism.

3. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they need more time with Indians.
(b) That they need more study of American Indians.
(c) That they know very little about Indians.
(d) That they know the ultimate truth.

4. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They feel they owe taxes.
(b) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(c) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.
(d) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

5. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?

(see the answer key)

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