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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?
(a) The Alaskan Inuits and the Pueblos of New Mexico.
(b) Pueblos of New Mexico and the Apache of the Southwest.
(c) The Apaches of the Southwest and the Northwest Coast Indians.
(d) The Nez Perce and the Sioux.

3. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?
(a) Stupid and slow.
(b) Inferior.
(c) Below standard.
(d) Test tubes and living laboratories.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) With government intervention.
(b) With outside help.
(c) With new rules established by white men.
(d) In traditional Indian fashion.

9. Who, according to the author, is at fault for poverty among American Indians?
(a) The Reorganization Act.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The United States Government.
(d) White America.

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

11. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?
(a) The Indian Settlement Act.
(b) The Indian Reorganization Act.
(c) The American Indian Poverty Act.
(d) The Reservation School Act.

12. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?
(a) Horses.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Gold.
(d) 135 million acres of land.

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

14. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?
(a) Fred Callings.
(b) Mme. Frankser.
(c) Blount Concur.
(d) Rene Descartes.

15. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
(a) William Zimmerman.
(b) Geronimo.
(c) Sitting Bull.
(d) Frank Wheeler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?

2. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

4. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

5. When does the author believe was the last time that true democracy was alive among Indian tribes?

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