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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 main conflict of the Northwestern tribes and the government?
(a) Fishing and Gaming rights.
(b) Herding rights.
(c) Hunting and water rights.
(d) National Park rights.

2. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?
(a) Paternalism.
(b) Greed.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Racism.

3. Once Dillon Myer took over, what was the policy instated from Commissioner to field clerk regarding Indians?
(a) Get them money as quickly as possible.
(b) Get rid of them as quickly as possible.
(c) Get their land as quickly as possible.
(d) Get them health care as quickly as possible.

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

5. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
(a) Begin talks with the federal government on land rights.
(b) Establish a cultural leave-us-alone agreement.
(c) Establish a cultural inclusion policy.
(d) Pass laws removing all federal government from Indian proceedings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

3. What year did the United States clear the eastern states of the former Indian allies?

4. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

5. What were the record years for the Christian church on the reservations?

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