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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. Who does the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Aberdeen, South Dakota serve?
(a) The tribes of Minnesota and the Great Lakes.
(b) The tribes of Kansas.
(c) The tribes of Canada.
(d) The tribes of the Dakotas and Nebraska.

2. What did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?
(a) That the federal government was spending nearly half a billion dollars a year on Indian people and therefore he did not think they were so neglected.
(b) That the federal government needed to spend more money on the Indian.
(c) That the federal government needed to close the reservations.
(d) That the federal government should support only those Indians living in urban areas.

3. During the 1950s, where were the Indian Health Services transferred to?
(a) The Department of the Interior.
(b) The War Department.
(c) The Department of Commerce.
(d) The Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

4. What did the office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico do to the Tigua of El Paso?
(a) They called them twice a year.
(b) They visited twice a year.
(c) They simply forgot about the tribe.
(d) They never visited, but sent money.

5. Who was Clyde Warrior?
(a) A writer.
(b) A poet.
(c) An artist.
(d) Perhaps the greatest wit in Indian country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Indians believe about land?

2. What did the new immigrants do to organize themselves in their new land?

3. What Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?

4. How do the Indians control social situations?

5. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were other groups insulted by the cards that read "We Shall Overrun?"

2. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

3. What was the first program offered by the African Americans after the Civil War and what happened to that program?

4. What does the author believe that every group must have to become a reality?

5. Discuss the Indian religious idea of sharing one's goods.

6. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

7. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

8. What, according to the author, does white America depend on as culture?

9. What is welfare based on?

10. How does the Bureau of Indian Affairs give the Indians an advantage for services over other Americans in need?

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