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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Indian Referral Act.
(b) The Peace Act.
(c) The Allotment Act.
(d) The Indian Ownership Act.

2. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.
(b) They helped establish state lines.
(c) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.
(d) They divided the church territories.

3. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
(a) The Indians would be better off on their own, without government involvement.
(b) The Indians should become Christian.
(c) The Indians want to control their own destiny.
(d) That the state would be more efficient than the Federal Government in caring for them.

4. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) The Reorganization Act.
(b) White America.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The United States Government.

5. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?
(a) The Choctaw.
(b) The Cherokee.
(c) The Apache.
(d) The Zuni.

6. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(b) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.
(c) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(d) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.

7. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?
(a) George Bush.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Isaac Stevens.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

8. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(b) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.
(c) They feel they owe taxes.
(d) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.

9. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?
(a) A white people.
(b) A native people.
(c) A foreign people.
(d) A folk people.

10. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
(a) They told the Indians that the state would be running their services and it would be more efficient.
(b) They tripled their land mass.
(c) They offered them money in return for termination.
(d) Utah promised them recognition by the federal government of their tribal marriages.

11. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?
(a) Rene Descartes.
(b) Blount Concur.
(c) Mme. Frankser.
(d) Fred Callings.

12. Which group of Indians did Arthur Watkins target first in his work for the government?
(a) Indians in his home state of Utah.
(b) Southwest Indians.
(c) Indians east of the Mississippi.
(d) The Cheyenne.

13. What was the unfortunate provision in the Wheeler-Howard Act?
(a) There was a one year delay on all services while the tribe voted.
(b) The Indians would have to give up hunting rights.
(c) The Indians would have to move again and give up more land.
(d) Once a reservation voted against the acceptance of the provisions of the act, they were forbidden from considering it again.

14. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The League of American Indian Voters.
(b) The Women's American Indian League.
(c) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(d) The Native American Baseball League.

15. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?
(a) That Indian tribes were unifying.
(b) That Indian tribes were flourishing.
(c) That Indian tribes had great schools.
(d) That Indian tribes were in the final stages of demise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?

3. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?

4. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?

5. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

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