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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What treaty did John F. Kennedy break?
(a) The Northwest Coast FishingTreaty.
(b) The Landfill Treaty.
(c) The Pickering Treaty.
(d) The Treaty of 1963.

2. In 1964, what percentage of Indian thought the United States should get out of America?
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 15 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

3. In 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Transfer the Bureau to the War Department.
(b) Transfer the Bureau to the Dept. of the Interior.
(c) Transfer the Bureau to Health, Education and Welfare.
(d) Transfer the Bureau to the Commerce Department.

4. Why did the Indians support Urban Renewal?
(a) They joked that everyone else would move to the city and they could fence them off and run buffalo all over the country again.
(b) They thought it might help urban Indians.
(c) They thought that African Americans could use the support.
(d) They thought they could get a piece of the action moneywise.

5. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(b) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.
(c) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(d) That the federal government was spending nearly half a billion dollars a year on Indian people and therefore he did not think they were so neglected.

6. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?
(a) 1855 to 1863.
(b) 1850 to 1900.
(c) 1863 to 1910.
(d) 1870 to 1930.

7. Under what umbrella did the Bureau of Indian Affairs begin?
(a) The Peace Department.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The War Department.
(d) The Senate.

8. As stated in Part 8, what must the white man do before he can relate to others?
(a) He must define his own history.
(b) He must forego the pleasure of defining them.
(c) He must connect to the land.
(d) He must understand that he is superior to others.

9. Who is Frank Takes Gun?
(a) The chairman of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(b) The leader of the Native American Church.
(c) The author of this book.
(d) A gun-control lobbyist.

10. What, spiritually, was Robert Kennedy?
(a) An Indian.
(b) An Irishman.
(c) An American.
(d) A white man.

11. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?
(a) That Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart were hidden somewhere in the Portland office.
(b) That you need a crane to see into the office.
(c) That the office doesn't exist, it is a mirage.
(d) That you have to walk through the paperwork.

12. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?
(a) They asked the Indians for help.
(b) They transplanted European social and political systems.
(c) They borrowed from Indian culture and myth to build their basis of laws.
(d) They learned Indian art.

13. How does the Native American Church view death?
(a) As a warning from God.
(b) As a natural occurrence and not a special punishment.
(c) As a symbol of peace.
(d) As a punishment.

14. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?
(a) Dance.
(b) Communion.
(c) The peyote button.
(d) Prayer shawls.

15. What kind of groups, according to the author, do people have little sympathy for?
(a) Stolid groups.
(b) Funny groups.
(c) Polite groups.
(d) Rude groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

2. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

3. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

4. What, according to the author, is the problem with the white man's economic system?

5. Who are the Five Civilized Tribes?

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