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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The League of American Indian Voters.
(b) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(c) The Native American Baseball League.
(d) The Women's American Indian League.

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

11. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?
(a) Defending school financing on the Cherokee Reservation.
(b) Defending hunting and treaty rights of the Cherokee.
(c) Defending marriages on the Cherokee Reservation performed by Native American Ministers.
(d) Defending water rights for the Cherokee Nation.

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

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

14. What has created a feeling of unity among American Indians?
(a) Brotherhood with a similar history.
(b) The Native American College system.
(c) The betrayal of treaty promises.
(d) Need for social services.

15. What was the survey of 1086 called?
(a) The Peasant Survey.
(b) The Middle Ages Survey.
(c) The Century Survey.
(d) The Domesday Survey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?

2. Which group of Indians did Arthur Watkins target first in his work for the government?

3. What did treaties initially do?

4. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?

5. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

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