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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Minneapolis do in Tama, Iowa?
(a) They combined the school in Tama with one in Great Falls.
(b) They moved all the reservations in the area to the Tama, Iowa school.
(c) They built a school with no road to it.
(d) They abruptly closed the grade school.

3. What is the best service offered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs area offices?
(a) Helping with construction projects.
(b) Keeping records.
(c) Communication with Washington.
(d) Posting job openings.

4. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?
(a) Their culture.
(b) Their schools.
(c) Their language.
(d) Their art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?

2. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

3. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?

4. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?

5. What was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?

(see the answer key)

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