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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?
(a) That you need a crane to see into the office.
(b) That Judge Crater and Amelia Earhart were hidden somewhere in the Portland office.
(c) That the office doesn't exist, it is a mirage.
(d) That you have to walk through the paperwork.

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

3. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?
(a) Stop researching and preying on the Indian, and start helping.
(b) Stop worrying about publishing and live among the Indians.
(c) Start writing everything down.
(d) Learn the art of the Indians and give up anthropology.

4. Who was Arthur Watkins?
(a) President Truman's Chief of Staff.
(b) The chairman appointed to run the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(c) A poet who wrote about the Indian problems.
(d) A Mormon named as head the Indian subcommittees in the Senate and House.

5. Who did missionaries believe the American Indians were when they connected their religion with the tribes they encountered?
(a) Mayans.
(b) Russians.
(c) The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
(d) The Spanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?

2. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

3. What, according to the author, did the death of President Kennedy and Sitting Bull have in common?

4. What television series began in 1967 that Indians fought to have banned?

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

(see the answer key)

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