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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their aunt's.
(b) Their uncle's.
(c) Their grandmother's.
(d) Their grandfathers.

2. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(b) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(c) Because they do not work.
(d) Because they live in an area where there is no work.

3. Who did early white men insist on meeting with when talking to a tribe of Indians?
(a) The Holy Man.
(b) The Chief's wife.
(c) The Medicine Man.
(d) The Chief.

4. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?
(a) Compensate people who don't need it.
(b) Compensate people insofar as they deviate from the norm of society.
(c) Compensate people who are too poor to make much use of it.
(d) Compensate people who complain the loudest.

5. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?
(a) Dance.
(b) Prayer shawls.
(c) The peyote button.
(d) Communion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?

3. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?

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

5. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?

(see the answer key)

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