- 1. Which of the following tribes has the largest reservation land area in the US?
A) Cherokee Nation
B) Choctaw Nation
C) Navajo Nation
D) Blackfeet Nation
- 2. How many federally recognized tribes are there in the United States?
A) 200
B) 300
C) 1000
D) 574
- 3. The highest court for resolving disputes within a tribe's jurisdiction is known as?
A) District Court
B) Federal Court
C) Supreme Court
D) Tribal Court
- 4. Which president signed the Indian Civil Rights Act into law in 1968?
A) Jimmy Carter
B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Richard Nixon
D) John F. Kennedy
- 5. Which Native American activist led the occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to protest federal policies towards American Indians?
A) Clyde Bellecourt
B) Richard Oakes
C) Russell Means
D) Dennis Banks
- 6. The Black Hills in South Dakota are sacred to which American Indian tribe?
A) Seminole
B) Apache
C) Lakota Sioux
D) Choctaw
- 7. Which tribe initiated the landmark legal case known as United States v. Washington, also called the Boldt Decision?
A) Ottawa Tribe
B) Nisqually Tribe
C) Crow Tribe
D) Yurok Tribe
- 8. What landmark legislation was passed to provide compensation to tribes for the taking of their original homelands by the federal government?
A) First Americans Freedmen's Citizenship Act
B) Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
C) Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
D) Indian Claims Commission Act
- 9. Which American Indian advocate founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968?
A) Vine Deloria Jr.
B) Russell Means
C) John Trudell
D) Dennis Banks
- 10. What act, passed in 1924, granted US citizenship to American Indians born within the territorial limits of the country?
A) Indian Citizenship Act
B) Indian Reorganization Act
C) Snyder Act
D) Wheeler-Howard Act
- 11. Which President initiated the policy of 'termination' which sought to end federal recognition of tribes and dismantle reservations?
A) Harry S. Truman
B) George H.W. Bush
C) Ronald Reagan
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 12. What is the name of the law that allowed individual American Indians to claim land allotments from reservations?
A) Indian Removal Act
B) Wheeler-Howard Act
C) Indian Reorganization Act
D) Dawes Act
- 13. What is the name of the annual gathering that allows American Indian tribes to meet, dance, and celebrate their heritage?
A) Expo
B) Powwow
C) Fair
D) Rodeo
- 14. On which date was the Indian Removal Act signed into law by President Andrew Jackson?
A) July 4, 1776
B) May 28, 1830
C) December 7, 1941
D) September 17, 1787
- 15. In what year did the Indian Reorganization Act, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, pass?
A) 1965
B) 1865
C) 1920
D) 1934
- 16. The Trail of Tears refers to the forced removal of which tribe from their ancestral lands?
A) Cherokee
B) Seminoles
C) Choctaw
D) Chickasaw
- 17. What is the term for the policy of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
A) Americanization
B) Cultural Separation Order
C) Trail of Tears Initiative
D) Reservation Act
- 18. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is a federal agency under which department in the United States government?
A) Department of Agriculture
B) Department of the Interior
C) Department of Health and Human Services
D) Department of Defense
- 19. Which Native American leader was known for his resistance against the U.S. government's encroachment on tribal lands?
A) Chief Joseph
B) Sitting Bull
C) Pocahontas
D) Red Cloud
- 20. The Dawes Act of 1887 aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing reservation land into individual plots. What term is used to describe these divided plots?
A) Colonies
B) Allotments
C) Territories
D) Reservations
- 21. Who was the Nez Perce chief known for his attempt to lead his people to Canada to escape being relocated to a reservation?
A) Chief Joseph
B) Geronimo
C) Sitting Bull
D) Cochise
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