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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Stewart Udall's explanation about why the Indians had not made progress like his friends in Arizona?
(a) They didn't have the education needed for the task.
(b) They didn't have the right kind of land, like in Arizona.
(c) They didn't have the money of big CEO's at large corporations.
(d) They didn't have the management tools that IBM, General Motors, and Bell Telephone had.

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

3. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Gold.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) 135 million acres of land.
(d) Horses.

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

5. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?
(a) They were afraid of Indian unity.
(b) They were afraid of the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) They were afraid the French would want the land back.
(d) They were afraid of foreign influences.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

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

3. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

4. How many tribal communities get federal services?

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

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