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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?
(a) A series on Davy Crockett.
(b) A series on Custer.
(c) A series on Lewis and Clark.
(d) A series on Kennedy.

2. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.
(b) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(d) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.

3. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(b) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(c) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.
(d) That the tribes rent land from the government.

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

5. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?
(a) They were afraid the French would want the land back.
(b) They were afraid of the Civil Rights Movement.
(c) They were afraid of Indian unity.
(d) They were afraid of foreign influences.

6. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(b) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.
(c) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(d) Start writing everything down.

7. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?
(a) They spend all day making eagle warbonnets.
(b) An inadequate land base that continues to shrink because of land sales.
(c) They still want to go to war.
(d) They have no water.

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

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

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

11. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) Arthur Watkins.
(b) The governor of Florida.
(c) Congress.
(d) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.

12. What are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?
(a) The National War Survivors of America.
(b) The National Land Rights Owners.
(c) The National Water Rights of Indian Reservations.
(d) The National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Youth Council.

13. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?
(a) George Washington.
(b) An Indian Princess.
(c) Pocahontas.
(d) Lewis and Clark.

14. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?
(a) To prevent collapse of the lumber industry on the west coast.
(b) To prevent them from living in a national park.
(c) To prevent tourists from overrunning their fishing areas.
(d) To prevent the extinction of salmon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?

3. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

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

5. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?

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