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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(b) Hunting and water rights.
(c) Herding rights.
(d) National Park rights.

2. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they need more study of American Indians.
(b) That they know the ultimate truth.
(c) That they need more time with Indians.
(d) That they know very little about Indians.

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

4. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?
(a) Fishing rights.
(b) Copper and other minerals.
(c) Water.
(d) Shipping rights.

5. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) The Spanish-American War.
(b) The Korean Conflict.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) WWII.

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. When Watkins visited the Menominee, what did he compare the living conditions to?
(a) Pearl Harbor after the Japanese attack.
(b) The refugee camps of the Near East after World War II.
(c) Hiroshima after the atomic bomb.
(d) War torn Italy.

8. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?
(a) The Indian Encampment Act.
(b) The Howard- Wheeler Act.
(c) The Reorganization Act of 1934.
(d) The Cavalry Act.

9. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(b) Because they do not work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.
(d) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.

10. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?
(a) People like you on sight.
(b) It is lucrative to be an American Indian.
(c) You get to live on a reservation.
(d) People are always interested in your "plight."

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

12. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(b) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.
(c) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(d) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.

13. 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.

14. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1955.
(c) 2010.
(d) 1934.

15. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(b) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.
(c) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?

2. Why, according to the author, do anthropologists never carry a writing instrument?

3. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

4. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

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

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