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

2. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?
(a) The Alaskan Inuits and the Pueblos of New Mexico.
(b) Pueblos of New Mexico and the Apache of the Southwest.
(c) The Apaches of the Southwest and the Northwest Coast Indians.
(d) The Nez Perce and the Sioux.

3. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?
(a) They teach anthroplogists about their art.
(b) They have become unwitting missionaries for anthropologists.
(c) They teach anthropologists about their culture.
(d) They assist them in their work.

4. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(b) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.
(c) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(d) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.

5. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?
(a) As Civil Wars.
(b) As conflicts, not wars.
(c) Not as wars.
(d) As the first foreign wars of American history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?

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

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

4. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?

5. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did the government go after first during the time of Termination?

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

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

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

5. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?

6. Describe what happens to the Virginia Indians each year at Thanksgiving. What is this in response to?

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

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

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 did anthropologists find about alcoholism on the reservation? What does the author think of this finding?

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