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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?
(a) They are paid by the government NOT to grow crops.
(b) They live in colder climates and have better housing.
(c) Their medical care is not as good as American Indians.
(d) They have not had their basic governmental forms disturbed.

3. Why did the Klamath Bill have to be amended?
(a) To prevent them from living in a national park.
(b) To prevent tourists from overrunning their fishing areas.
(c) To prevent the extinction of salmon.
(d) To prevent collapse of the lumber industry on the west coast.

4. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
(a) They tripled their land mass.
(b) Utah promised them recognition by the federal government of their tribal marriages.
(c) They offered them money in return for termination.
(d) They told the Indians that the state would be running their services and it would be more efficient.

5. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?
(a) Their aunt's.
(b) Their uncle's.
(c) Their grandmother's.
(d) Their grandfathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?

2. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

3. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?

4. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?

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

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