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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 were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?
(a) The Wheeler-Howard act was working well.
(b) The Wheeler-Howard act needed an amendment for money to build new schools.
(c) The Wheeler-Howard act was not accomplishing the task of bringing the Indian people up to the level of their white neighbors.
(d) The Wheeler-Howard act was a success.

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

3. What have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
(a) Elect their own president.
(b) Start a national newspaper.
(c) Elect their own congress.
(d) Band together.

4. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(b) Get them health care as quickly as possible.
(c) Get their land as quickly as possible.
(d) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.

5. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 1 year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What provision did Watkins attach to the bill for the Menominee distribution of judgment money?

2. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?

3. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?

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

5. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe do?

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

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

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

5. What are the Five Civilized Tribes and why are they referred to in this way?

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

7. What was the term "dependency," as used in the Delaware Treaty of September 17, 1778?

8. How does the author describe anthropologists? What is his attitude and tone when discussing this group of people?

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

10. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?

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