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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?
(a) That the tribes have no title to the land at all, only occupancy rights.
(b) That the tribes could give their land away if they wished.
(c) That the tribes had titles of ownership to all land.
(d) That the tribes rent land from the government.

2. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
(a) Social services.
(b) New schools.
(c) Self-government.
(d) Social welfare.

3. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?
(a) Because they do not work.
(b) Because they live in an area where there is no 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.

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

5. What phrases does Mr. Farb continue to use when talking about Indians?
(a) Inferior.
(b) Below standard.
(c) Test tubes and living laboratories.
(d) Stupid and slow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

2. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?

3. What is regarded as utter hypocrisy by the Indian people?

4. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?

5. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

2. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?

3. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?

4. Who did the government go after first during the time of Termination?

5. What did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe do?

6. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

7. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?

8. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

9. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

10. What are the myths associated with Indian Affairs?

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