Week 4 Quiz

A Native nation's own law decides who its citizens are and who may vote in its elections. How does this course classify tribal citizenship?

Select one.

• A political status, like citizenship in any nation, set by the nation's own government
• A racial category, because the nation describes its members by their ancestry and descent
• An ethnicity, because it rests on shared customs and a sense of common origin
• A benefit the United States grants to one racial group

Which statement matches the course's definition of tribal sovereignty?

Select one.

• The right of Native nations to govern themselves, which began when Congress granted it
• The inherent right of Native nations to govern themselves, held before the United States existed
• A preference in federal law given to people of one race
• The power of a state government to manage tribal lands within its borders

Read as an agreement between nations, what kind of document is the Fort Laramie Treaty (1868)?

Select one.

• A gift of land from the United States to the Sioux people, given as a favor
• A law that Congress passed about the Sioux people
• An agreement between two governments, with promises on each side
• An executive order the President issued to settle the Black Hills

Which list places the week's three laws and treaties in time order, earliest first?

Select one.

• Dawes Act, Indian Removal Act, Fort Laramie Treaty
• Fort Laramie Treaty, Indian Removal Act, Dawes Act
• Indian Removal Act, Dawes Act, Fort Laramie Treaty
• Indian Removal Act, Fort Laramie Treaty, Dawes Act

What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize?

Select one.

• Removal treaties with tribes living east of the Mississippi River
• Dividing reservation land into individual allotments
• Setting aside the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills
• A federal school system for Native children

Which description fits the Dawes Act of 1887?

Select one.

• It authorized removal treaties with nations east of the Mississippi River
• It divided reservation land into individual allotments and opened the land not allotted for sale
• It confirmed that each nation would keep all of its land in common
• It set aside the Black Hills for the exclusive use of the Sioux people

The Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears was a voluntary move by Cherokee families who chose to look for better land in the west.

True or false.

• True
• False

Wolfe (2006) argued that settlers come to stay and take the land. What does that framework say about colonialism?

Select one.

• It was a single event that ended when the first settlers arrived
• It describes only groups that entered by force and were then set apart from immigrants
• It is an ongoing structure rather than a single past event
• It is the path every group follows as it joins a host society

Using Week 3's distinction, which case describes a colonized or incorporated people rather than an immigrant people?

Select one.

• A family that moves from one country to a new city for a job
• A worker who arrives on a visa under the country's immigration rules and later becomes a citizen
• A student who comes from abroad to study and decides to stay
• A Native nation whose homeland became part of the United States by conquest

Which framework is credited to Blauner (1969) and sets groups that entered by force apart from groups that entered as immigrants?

Select one.

• Settler colonialism
• Internal colonialism
• Cultural pluralism
• Segmented assimilation