Native American Studies Quiz

What is Native American Studies?

• Learning about ancient indigenous societies

• Learning the history of the wild west

• Learning about historical and modern native issues

• All of the above

What are the 5 stages of Native History?

• Termination: Political Genocide

• Pre-Contact: Creation Stories

• Self-Determination: Indian Definition

• Contact: Benevolent to Confrontational

• Reservations: Forced Assimilation

What were the systemic issues that the American Indian Movement formed to address?

• Poverty

• Discrimination

• Police Brutality

• Casinos

Which of the following are issues that indigenous people are currently dealing with?

• Restoration of tribal land stolen from broken treaties

• Revitalization of traditional language and cultural practices

• Protecting indigenous land from resource exploitation

• Allowing tribes to govern themselves without federal control

• All of the following answer choices are correct

Which broken treaty was when the Delaware natives were promised peace but then were massacred by Pennsylvania militiamen?

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

• Indian Removal Act

• Treaty of Hopewell

• Pickering Treaty

Which broken treaty was when the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, or Six Nations (comprising the Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations) were given land but forced to leave when the US expanded?

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

• Indian Removal Act

• Treaty of Hopewell

• Pickering Treaty

Which broken treaty was when white settlers moved into the Great Lakes region and went to war with the Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi Nations and forced them to give up their lands?

• Treaty of Fort Pitt

• Treaty of Greenville

• Treaty of Hopewell

• Pickering Treaty

Which was the law that forced the 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole) to move to lands west in the Trail of Tears?

• Indian Relocation Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Indian Reservation Act

• New Echota Act

Which broken treaty was when the Great Sioux Nation gave up land for the US to build roads and railways in exchange for protection of their remaining land? The treaty would be violated when gold was discovered on the Black Hills mountains.

• The Treaty with the Potowami

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Medicine Lodge Treaty

• Treaty of Washington

Which broken treaty was when the Kiowa chief Lone Wolf sued the US Government for violating their land rights, however, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could break any treaties made with tribes?

• The Treaty with the Potowami

• Fort Laramie Treaty

• Medicine Lodge Treaty

• Treaty of Washington