2024 Native American Heritage Month Quiz 2: More Facts&Knowledge

Tribes possess the right to...[check all that apply]

• Make and enforce laws, both civil and criminal

• Exclude persons from tribal lands

• Form their own governments

• Tax

• Engage in foreign relations

Most federally recognized tribes are organized under:

• 25 C.F.R. Part 115

• The Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975

• The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

• The Indian Tribal Justice Act of 1993

This Act provides the basis of health care for American Indian/Alaska Natives pursuant to the treaty and trust obligations of the United States Government.

• Indian Health Improvement Act

• Indian Health Care Improvement Act

• Snyder Act

• Indian Health Service Act

The Indian Self-Determination Act of 1975:

• Allows tribes authority to exercise criminal jurisdiction over all tribal members on or off tribal lands

• Allows tribes to declare themselves independent, sovereign nations

• Allows individuals to self-determine themselves as Native Americans

• Affords tribes the opportunity to provide for their own police departments and other institutional services through federal grants and contracts

Hunting and fishing rights for Native Americans are a result of treaties signed between tribes and the federal government. These treaties [check all that apply]:

• Explicitly guaranteed hunting and fishing rights to Native American tribes

• Guaranteed Native Americans the continued freedom to hunt and fish in their traditional hunting and fishing locations, on or off reservation lands

• Gave tribes members the right to hunt and fish only on reservation lands

• Gave tribes members the right to hunt and fish on reservation lands

True or False: Every federally recognized tribes has a reservation.

• True

• False

In what year did Congress end treaty-making with Indian tribes?

• 2006

• 1993

• 1871

• 1862

Between 1778 and 1871, how many treaties did the United States Senate ratify?

• 422

• 370

• 245

• 301

Although Native Americans won citizenship in 1924, the struggle for voting rights stretched on much longer. In what year were Native Americans guaranteed the right to vote in every state?

• 1962

• 1970

• 1988

• 1965

Up until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Native American religious practices were illegal. When was this Act passed?

• 1944

• 1962

• 1989

• 1978