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Native American Studies Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Native American Studies?

a)

Learning about ancient indigenous societies

b)

Learning the history of the wild west

c)

Learning about historical and modern native issues

d)

All of the above

2.

What are the 5 stages of Native History?

a)

Pre-Contact: Creation Stories

b)

Contact: Benevolent to Confrontational

c)

Termination: Political Genocide

d)

Reservations: Forced Assimilation

e)

Self-Determination: Indian Definition

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
3.

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

a)

Poverty

b)

Discrimination

c)

Police Brutality

d)

Casinos

4.

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

a)

Restoration of tribal land stolen from broken treaties

b)

Revitalization of traditional language and cultural practices

c)

Protecting indigenous land from resource exploitation

d)

Allowing tribes to govern themselves without federal control

e)

All of the following answer choices are correct

5.

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

a)

Treaty of Fort Pitt

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Treaty of Hopewell

d)

Pickering Treaty

6.

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?

a)

Treaty of Fort Pitt

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Treaty of Hopewell

d)

Pickering Treaty

7.

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?

a)

Treaty of Fort Pitt

b)

Treaty of Greenville

c)

Treaty of Hopewell

d)

Pickering Treaty

8.

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?

a)

Indian Relocation Act

b)

Indian Removal Act

c)

Indian Reservation Act

d)

New Echota Act

9.

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.

a)

The Treaty with the Potowami

b)

Fort Laramie Treaty

c)

Medicine Lodge Treaty

d)

Treaty of Washington

10.

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?

a)

The Treaty with the Potowami

b)

Fort Laramie Treaty

c)

Medicine Lodge Treaty

d)

Treaty of Washington

11.

What was the Dawes Act?

a)

A law that allowed reservations to maintain traditional practices

b)

A law that allowed natives to sue for broken treaties

c)

A law that broke up Indian land and forced them into individual plots

d)

A law that allowed whites to attack indigenous people

12.

What was the purpose of this document?

a)

Trying to advertise reservation lands for natives to buy

b)

Trying to advertise tribal lands to whites

c)

Trying to pay natives for their loss of land

d)

All of the following are correct

13.

What is the main idea behind this Cartoon?

a)

The purpose of the Dawes act was to break up tribal lands to force assimilation

b)

The purpose was to show how evil Dawes was

c)

The purpose is to show how whites and natives have different understandings

d)

The purpose is to show how natives fought back

14.

What trend is displayed by this image?

a)

Natives have died off and barely exist in this country

b)

Due to discrimination, most natives have assimilated into American culture

c)

Throughout American history, natives have had their lands stolen by the government

d)

The environment is changing and getting hotter

15.

Which of the following reasons were why natives protested the DAPL?

a)

The pipeline would go through sacred burial ground

b)

The tribes would not receive any of the oil

c)

The pipeline has high chances of leaking oil into native water sources

d)

The construction would interfere with native life

16.

Why are environmental issues related to native issues?

a)

They are the first to deal with climate change due to their relationship with the land

b)

Many natives are scientists who work with the climate

c)

Natives are just against oil companies in general

d)

All of the following answers are correct

17.

These indigenous teens are attending a Powwow which relates to which current indigenous issue?

a)

Getting indigenous land back from broken treaties

b)

Revitalization of Native language and culture

c)

Protecting indigenous land from exploitation

d)

Allowing tribes to govern themselves

18.

How is this image an example of revitalizing Indigenous culture?

a)

It's promoting an independent native government

b)

It's a call for giving the land back to native people

c)

It is blending Indigenous language with a modern teenage fashion aesthetic

d)

It is about protecting the land of Indigenous people