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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) The Indian Bureau should be abolished.
(b) Indians should be abolished.
(c) Indians should be compensated for land loss.
(d) All land should be taken from Indians.

2. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?
(a) That the Cherokee Nation could not become French citizens.
(b) That the Cherokee Nation could not take money from foreign powers.
(c) That the Cherokee Nation could not marry foreigners.
(d) That the cherokee Nation could not hold any treaty with any foreign power.

3. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?
(a) Defending school financing on the Cherokee Reservation.
(b) Defending hunting and treaty rights of the Cherokee.
(c) Defending water rights for the Cherokee Nation.
(d) Defending marriages on the Cherokee Reservation performed by Native American Ministers.

4. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(b) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(c) To move them to Missouri.
(d) To get them better hospitals and roads.

5. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
(a) The League of Nations, Pan American Indians.
(b) The Women's American Indian League.
(c) The League of American Indian Voters.
(d) The Native American Baseball League.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

2. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

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

4. What did Lake Superior hold that the government wanted?

5. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?

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

3. What is paternalism?

4. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

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