Quiz 3 Native American Misconceptions

Check all that are true.

• Native Americans pay taxes

• All Native American tribes own Casinos

• All Native people were born in tipis

• Tipis were mainly used by tribes located in the Great Plains region of the United States

• Each tribe has the same rules when it comes to enrollment

What are some of the misconceptions/stereotypes seen in this old anti-littering PSA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM (copy and paste link into web browser)

Check all that are true.

• Some non-Natives feel Native Americans have special rights that they themselves do not have

• Historically, Native Americans have had to fight for recognition and to compel the United States to live up to its treaty obligations

• All tribes act as "sovereign government entities similar to states within our federal system"

• The levels of experiences tribes have in independently managing their affairs varies greatly due to extreme economic and social injustice imposed upon these tribes by the US

• American Indians were conquered and lost their sovereignty

Check all that are false.

• There can't be multiple sovereign nations in the same geographic area

• Tribal sovereignty means "special" rights for Indians

• Indian rights of sovereignty are race-based

• Sovereignty is a recognition of the numerous sovereign nations that were in the land settled by the European colonists

• Fishing, hunting, and other resource-access rights are based on property rights reserved by Indian nations when they were convinced or forced to give up most of their property

Check all that are false.

• Treaty-based resource-access rights do not go to "the Indians" as a racial group, but to the specific tribe that owns the specific easement retained in its treaty with the United States

• Tribes represent exclusionary racial groups

• Indian nations determine their own membership, and blood quantum is commonly a factor in this determination

• Generally, it is the US, not the tribe that originated the idea of a blood quantum

• Historically, tribes sometimes took non-Indians in and made them tribal members; it was the US that refused to recognize those non-Indians as tribal citizens

JUDGMENT FREE ZONE!!! Check any of these common misconceptions you or someone you know has believed to be true.

• Tribes aren't really nations; they're more like clubs

• The treaties are out-of-date and are no longer an issue

• Even if Indians originally had rights of self-rule, there are no authentic Indians left

• Reservations are just welfare states funded by the federal government, and Indians receive "special rights" through economic assistance from gaming

• Tribes don't have to follow laws, and Indians are lazy and refuse to work

Where did the term "Indian" come from?

• The first settlers were from India

• Christopher Columbus thought he had landed in the East Indies

• Explorers thought the Native peoples looked like they were from India

What was NOT a contributing factor in the US Dakota War of 1862?

• Violations of US treaties

• Late annuity payments by Indian agents

• Theft of crops from Sioux villages

"Sioux" is a name traditionally used by the Dakota people when referring to themselves

• True

• False

Some tribes require for enrollment a certain "blood quantum." Blood quantum is the amount of "Indian blood" that an individual possesses. The only beings the government measures in blood quantum are (check all that apply):

• Dogs

• Native Americans

• Cats

• Cows

• Horses