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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.

2. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?
(a) United States v. Chippewa.
(b) United States v. Menominees.
(c) United States v. Winans.
(d) United States v. Zimmerman.

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

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

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

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

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

8. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
(a) Let white America care for it.
(b) Hand it over to the care of the Interior Department.
(c) Authorize Stewart Udall to conserve it.
(d) Put it in the care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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

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

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

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

13. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.
(b) They were never ratified by Congress.
(c) They were never broken and followed carefully.
(d) The written documents never made it back to Washington.

14. 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 services.
(c) Social welfare.
(d) Self-government.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?

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

3. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

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

5. What is the fundamental thesis of the anthropologist?

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