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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?
(a) The first time land was returned to the Indians.
(b) The first time land was sold by the Indians.
(c) The first clear-cut case of fraudulent dealings on part of Congress.
(d) The first time water was sold by the Indians.

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

3. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
(a) Elect their own congress.
(b) Start a national newspaper.
(c) Elect their own president.
(d) Band together.

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?
(a) Buffalo.
(b) Water.
(c) Tribes.
(d) Treaty rights.

5. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(b) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.
(c) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(d) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.

6. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The Allotment Treaty.
(b) The Church Treaty.
(c) The Dawes Treaty.
(d) The Pickering Treaty.

7. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
(a) New schools.
(b) Self-government.
(c) Social services.
(d) Social welfare.

8. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) Nothing, it still exists.
(b) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(c) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(d) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.

9. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?
(a) Because they are afraid they will hurt a child with it.
(b) Because the ink dries up in the sun.
(c) Because they would rather record than write for accuracy.
(d) Because they already know what they are going to find.

10. 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 grandmother's.
(c) Their uncle's.
(d) Their grandfathers.

11. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?
(a) That people are lost in this world and need saving.
(b) That people are objects for observation.
(c) That people are different and deserve study.
(d) That people are human and have a range of emotions.

12. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To move them to Missouri.
(b) To get them better hospitals and roads.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.

13. What year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1954.

14. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Roosevelt.
(b) President Truman.
(c) President Nixon.
(d) President Eisenhower.

15. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?
(a) They teach anthropologists about their culture.
(b) They teach anthroplogists about their art.
(c) They have become unwitting missionaries for anthropologists.
(d) They assist them in their work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?

2. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?

3. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?

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

5. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

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