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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) In traditional Indian fashion.
(b) With government intervention.
(c) With outside help.
(d) With new rules established by white men.

2. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?
(a) Because they are caught between two worlds.
(b) Because they are alcoholics.
(c) Because life on the reservation is like a party.
(d) Because they have weak father figures.

3. How is the top job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs filled?
(a) The Senate picks the person.
(b) The House picks the person.
(c) The person is voted in by the Indians.
(d) By appointment.

4. Where did Billy Mills grow up?
(a) Topeka, Kansas.
(b) Enid, Oklahoma.
(c) Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
(d) Sioux City, South Dakota.

5. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1886.
(d) 2010.

Short Answer Questions

1. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

2. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?

3. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

4. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

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

(see the answer key)

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