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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
(a) Hand it over to the care of the Interior Department.
(b) Let white America care for it.
(c) Authorize Stewart Udall to conserve it.
(d) Put it in the care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

2. How do most American Indians feels about taxes?
(a) They pay state taxes, but refuse to pay federal taxes.
(b) They feel they owe taxes.
(c) They feel, like other Americans, that they must pay taxes that are due.
(d) They feel they paid when they gave up two billion acres of land to the U.S.

3. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?
(a) To combine them with tribes in Oklahoma.
(b) To move them to Missouri.
(c) Better to have them expire as private citizens than let anyone know how badly they had been treated.
(d) To get them better hospitals and roads.

4. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?
(a) The Pickering Treaty.
(b) The Church Treaty.
(c) The Allotment Treaty.
(d) The Dawes Treaty.

5. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?
(a) The tribes could punish them.
(b) The tribes could banish them.
(c) The tribes could jail them.
(d) The tribes could call for government back-up.

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

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

8. How are young Indians connected to anthropologists?
(a) They teach anthroplogists about their art.
(b) They assist them in their work.
(c) They have become unwitting missionaries for anthropologists.
(d) They teach anthropologists about their culture.

9. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?
(a) He must apply through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
(b) He must apply to a tribal committee.
(c) He must get on a waiting list and be approved by the tribe he wishes to visit.
(d) He must donate an equal amount of money to the tribe that he spent on the study.

10. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?
(a) That Indian tribes had great schools.
(b) That Indian tribes were unifying.
(c) That Indian tribes were flourishing.
(d) That Indian tribes were in the final stages of demise.

11. What was the Senate Interior Committee afraid of after the passage of the Wheeler-Howard act?
(a) They were afraid of the Civil Rights Movement.
(b) They were afraid of Indian unity.
(c) They were afraid the French would want the land back.
(d) They were afraid of foreign influences.

12. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?
(a) United States v. Winans.
(b) United States v. Zimmerman.
(c) United States v. Menominees.
(d) United States v. Chippewa.

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

14. What traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
(a) The Indians want to control their own destiny.
(b) That the state would be more efficient than the Federal Government in caring for them.
(c) The Indians should become Christian.
(d) The Indians would be better off on their own, without government involvement.

15. How did the government get the Klamaths to agree to termination?
(a) They gave back hunting and fishing rights on their land.
(b) They gave them new schools and built new roads.
(c) They offered to accept their tribal marriages.
(d) They received a judgement against the U.S. for $2.6 million, but nneded enabling legislation to spend it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one emphasis outlined in the Termination Act?

2. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

3. Who signed the original treaties with the Northwest Coast American Indians?

4. How long did the Indians have under the Wheeler-Howard Act to make a decision about their reservation?

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

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