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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main problem for the Plains Indians?
(a) They spend all day making eagle warbonnets.
(b) They still want to go to war.
(c) An inadequate land base that continues to shrink because of land sales.
(d) They have no water.

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

3. Like the missionaries, what have anthropologists become intolerably certain of?
(a) That they need more time with Indians.
(b) That they need more study of American Indians.
(c) That they know the ultimate truth.
(d) That they know very little about Indians.

4. How many tribal communities get federal services?
(a) Thousands.
(b) 10.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 30.

5. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they live in an area where there is no work.
(b) Because they do not work.
(c) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their hunting rights.
(d) Because they have been systematically cheated out of their water rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?

2. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?

3. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?

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

5. Who does the area office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Aberdeen, South Dakota serve?

(see the answer key)

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