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

2. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?
(a) A series on Kennedy.
(b) A series on Lewis and Clark.
(c) A series on Davy Crockett.
(d) A series on Custer.

3. How, according to the author, has America always viewed other nations?
(a) America has always honored other nations, but not the Indians.
(b) As neighbors and friends.
(c) As a militantly imperialistic world power eagerly grasping for economic control over weaker nations.
(d) America tries to help other countries, but sometimes oversteps their boundaries.

4. When the frontier was closed in 1890, what did American enter into next?
(a) WWII.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The Korean Conflict.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

5. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
(a) Sitting Bull.
(b) William Zimmerman.
(c) Frank Wheeler.
(d) Geronimo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

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

3. How does the author believe that America should view the Indian wars of the past?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is paternalism?

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

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

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

8. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?

9. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?

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

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