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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the best way for tribes to handle their reservation conflicts?
(a) With government intervention.
(b) With new rules established by white men.
(c) With outside help.
(d) In traditional Indian fashion.

2. Who appointed Dillon Myer as Commissioner of Indian Affairs?
(a) President Nixon.
(b) President Truman.
(c) President Eisenhower.
(d) President Roosevelt.

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

4. What other name is the Dawes Act known by?
(a) The Peace Act.
(b) The Allotment Act.
(c) The Indian Ownership Act.
(d) The Indian Referral Act.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?

2. How are the Indians of Canada different from the American Indians?

3. What does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?

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

5. What "first" did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 enact?

(see the answer key)

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