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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?
(a) The Cherokees.
(b) The Sioux.
(c) The Senecas.
(d) The Kiowa.

3. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?
(a) For the state Senate to rule over the Indians.
(b) For the state to assume responsibility for the tribes and its members.
(c) For the state governor to oversee the Indians.
(d) For the state to play no role in termination.

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

5. What happened to the oldest treaty between the U.S. and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The government passed a new law in 1869 abolishing the treaty.
(b) Nothing, it still exists.
(c) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(d) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

2. What did treaties initially do?

3. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

4. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?

5. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?

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