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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
(a) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(b) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(c) All land should be taken from Indians.
(d) Indians should be abolished.

2. 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.

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

4. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Start writing everything down.
(b) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(c) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(d) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.

5. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
(a) That the state would be more efficient than the Federal Government in caring for them.
(b) The Indians would be better off on their own, without government involvement.
(c) The Indians should become Christian.
(d) The Indians want to control their own destiny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?

2. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?

3. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?

4. What act was passed by the American government in 1934?

5. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did William Zimmerman, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs classify existing tribes into categories for Termination?

2. When the anthropologists stated that the Oglala Sioux need to be warriors, what was really happening to the Oglala Sioux?

3. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

4. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

5. Describe the treatment of the Choctaws. Why was their treatment worse when compared to other Indian peoples?

6. Why was Termination such a tragedy for the people of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin?

7. What happens every summer with work camps and teenagers? What do the teenagers learn in one month that adults do not understand? What is the author's point about this program?

8. What is the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe known for?

9. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

10. What is the history of the Sioux who lived along the Missouri River?

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