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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?
(a) A provision for hunting rights.
(b) A provision for water rights.
(c) A provision of termination.
(d) A provision for mineral rights.

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

3. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As Civil Wars.
(b) Not as wars.
(c) As the first foreign wars of American history.
(d) As conflicts, not wars.

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

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

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

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

8. Why did the Oglala Sioux become a favorite subject for study by anthropologists?
(a) Because of the art history.
(b) Because of their romantic past.
(c) Because of their unique way of life.
(d) Because of the vibrant present.

9. What did one anthropologist admit spending while studying a tribe of less than a 1,000 people?
(a) Two thousand dollars.
(b) A million dollars.
(c) One hundred and forty thousand dollars.
(d) Two hundred dollars.

10. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.
(b) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(c) As neighbors and friends.
(d) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.

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

12. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) 30.
(b) 10.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

13. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?
(a) President Kennedy wanted to add the land to Camp David.
(b) Senator Kennedy wanted to buy the land for his own family.
(c) The dam was part of the price of keeping Pennsylvania in line for John F. Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic Convention.
(d) President Kennedy needed the land to bargain with the Russians during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

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

3. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?

4. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?

5. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?

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