American Indians in Historical Perspective

A  TRUE

B  FALSE

A  Preventing the transfer of Indian land to anyone but the tribe itself.

B  Enabling tribes to organize for their common welfare

C  All of these.

D  Minimizing federal control of tribal affairs by empowering tribal governments

A  It showed that Indians could be effectively assimilated through boarding school education programs.

B  It showed that US government allotment and assimilation policy had been effective.

C  It showed that Indians were incapable of becoming part of American society.

D  It showed that US policy toward Indians had largely been ineffective and that the government had not appropriated enough funds to permit the Indian Service to do its job effectively.

A  Indians wanted to become miners.

B  Indians wanted to become farmers and had the capacity to do so

C  Indians wanted to become day laborers.

D  Indians wanted an education.

A  The relocation of southern/eastern tribes to reservations in the west.

B  None of these

C  The stripping away of US citizenship.

D  The deliberate genocide of certain tribes.

A  Treaties were approved by selected chiefs rather than by the entire tribe. leading to intra-tribal disputes.

B  All of these.

C  The treaty documents were often written in English and weren’t always honestly translated.

D  Treaties were often amended by the Senate after they had been signed.

A  He privileged the land rights of specific tribes the Cherokee.

B  He said that only land west of the Appalachians could be claimed by the US by right of discovery.

C  He suggested that discovery did indeed give title to the land, thereby superseding any rights that Natives had to the land.

D  None of these.

A  He said that only God owned the land.

B  All of these.

C  He said that the Spanish could claim ownership of the land by right of discovery.

D  He concluded that natives were true owners of the land.

A  To offer an official account of Native American history.

B  Historically, Native history has been told from a non-Native perspective, which has led to cultural misunderstandings. Thus, they seek to recount Native American history from a Native American perspective.

C  To bore their readers.

D  None of these.