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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.
(b) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.

2. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To get them better hospitals and roads.
(b) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(c) To move them to Missouri.
(d) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.

3. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.
(b) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(c) Start writing everything down.
(d) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.

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

5. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) President Roosevelt.
(c) President Nixon.
(d) President Truman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

2. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?

3. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?

4. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?

5. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?

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