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

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

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

4. 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) Rene Descartes.
(d) Blount Concur.

5. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?
(a) The D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution.
(b) The governor of Florida.
(c) Congress.
(d) Arthur Watkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

2. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?

3. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

4. What important work has the American Indian Historical Society of San Francisco done?

5. What other name is the Wheeler-Howard Act known by?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?

5. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?

6. 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?

7. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

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

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

10. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?

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