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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) People like you on sight.
(b) You get to live on a reservation.
(c) People are always interested in your "plight."
(d) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.

2. 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 take money from foreign powers.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(d) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.

3. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) They were never broken and followed carefully.
(b) They were never ratified by Congress.
(c) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.
(d) The written documents never made it back to Washington.

4. What kind of hats to anthropologists wear?
(a) Australian bush hats.
(b) Baseball caps.
(c) Straw hats.
(d) Indian warbonnets.

5. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?
(a) Gathered a full history of the American Indian in California.
(b) Fought to establish the San Francisco Indian Reservation System.
(c) Lectured across the country in colleges and universities about American Indians.
(d) Published the finest contemporary material on Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?

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

3. What happened during World War II on reservations?

4. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?

5. What did the office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico do to the Tigua of El Paso?

(see the answer key)

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