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WorksheetsNative American Studies Quiz
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
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?
Pre-Contact: Creation Stories
Contact: Benevolent to Confrontational
Termination: Political Genocide
Reservations: Forced Assimilation
Self-Determination: Indian Definition
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
What was the Dawes Act?
A law that allowed reservations to maintain traditional practices
A law that allowed natives to sue for broken treaties
A law that broke up Indian land and forced them into individual plots
A law that allowed whites to attack indigenous people
What was the purpose of this document?
Trying to advertise reservation lands for natives to buy
Trying to advertise tribal lands to whites
Trying to pay natives for their loss of land
All of the following are correct
What is the main idea behind this Cartoon?
The purpose of the Dawes act was to break up tribal lands to force assimilation
The purpose was to show how evil Dawes was
The purpose is to show how whites and natives have different understandings
The purpose is to show how natives fought back
What trend is displayed by this image?
Natives have died off and barely exist in this country
Due to discrimination, most natives have assimilated into American culture
Throughout American history, natives have had their lands stolen by the government
The environment is changing and getting hotter
Which of the following reasons were why natives protested the DAPL?
The pipeline would go through sacred burial ground
The tribes would not receive any of the oil
The pipeline has high chances of leaking oil into native water sources
The construction would interfere with native life
Why are environmental issues related to native issues?
They are the first to deal with climate change due to their relationship with the land
Many natives are scientists who work with the climate
Natives are just against oil companies in general
All of the following answers are correct
These indigenous teens are attending a Powwow which relates to which current indigenous issue?
Getting indigenous land back from broken treaties
Revitalization of Native language and culture
Protecting indigenous land from exploitation
Allowing tribes to govern themselves
How is this image an example of revitalizing Indigenous culture?
It's promoting an independent native government
It's a call for giving the land back to native people
It is blending Indigenous language with a modern teenage fashion aesthetic
It is about protecting the land of Indigenous people
