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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When whites claim Indian heritage, who do they believe was their ancestor?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Pocahontas.
(c) An Indian Princess.
(d) Lewis and Clark.

3. What happened to most of the treaties in the far west of the country?
(a) They were never ratified by Congress.
(b) The written documents never made it back to Washington.
(c) The field offices lost the written documents years ago.
(d) They were never broken and followed carefully.

4. What did treaties initially do?
(a) They helped establish state lines.
(b) They divided the church territories.
(c) They promised ownership of land that still belonged to the French.
(d) They marked the boundaries between the lands of the Indian nations and the U.S.

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) The government built a dam, which flooded the major part of the Seneca reservation and the treaty was broken.
(c) Nothing, it still exists.
(d) The government gave the land away after the Civil War to former slaves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What political aspirations did the Seneca's accuse the government of having regarding the oldest Indian treaty?

3. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?

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

5. A 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees included what provision?

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