Week 5 Quiz

What did the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 do?

Select one.

• It ended tribal citizenship, so Native people became citizens of the United States alone and of no nation of their own.
• It granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the United States, while the vote stayed under state law.
• It gave every Native person the right to vote in every state in the same year it passed, with no exceptions.
• It moved Native families from reservations to cities for job training and housing.

In which year did Congress pass the Indian Relocation Act, which authorized a vocational training program for adult Native Americans living on or near reservations?

Select one.

• 1934
• 1953
• 1956
• 1975

House Concurrent Resolution 108, which set the federal termination policy, dates from which year?

Select one.

• 1924
• 1953
• 1969
• 1990

Which statement defines termination as this course uses the term?

Select one.

• A federal program that moved Native people from reservations to cities for jobs and vocational training.
• The return of ancestors' remains and cultural items to the people they belong to.
• A federal policy under which tribes run their own programs and services.
• A federal policy of ending the United States' government-to-government relationship with a tribe.

The archive's excerpt E4 (illustrative) comes from a man whose family moved to a city in the late 1950s, interviewed in the 2000s. The relocation office promised his father job training and an apartment. Which law or event is E4 tied to?

Select one.

• The federal relocation program and the Indian Relocation Act of 1956
• The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the United States
• The occupation of Alcatraz by Indians of All Tribes
• The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990

A student writes that survivance means outlasting hard times. Which definition corrects the student?

Select one.

• Survivance is the federal policy that replaced termination in the 1970s.
• Survivance is the end of a nation's government after relocation.
• Survivance joins survival and resistance to describe Native presence that is active and continuing.
• Survivance is another word for survival, used only about nations that existed in the past.

Which law wrote into federal law the policy under which tribes run their own programs and services instead of having the federal government run them?

Select one.

• The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
• House Concurrent Resolution 108 of 1953
• The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, which requires the return of ancestors and cultural items
• The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975

A county museum receives federal funds and holds Native American human remains and cultural items. Under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, how is their return worked out?

Select one.

• Through consultation with lineal descendants, Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
• By the museum's staff alone, since the items are in its collection.
• Only when a state law also orders the return of the items.
• Only for items taken after the law was signed in 1990, never for any older collection.

The archive's E3 excerpt (illustrative) comes from a nurse who came after the 1965 immigration law, from another country, to work. E4's family moved inside the country under a federal program, as citizens of a nation that became part of the United States by conquest. Which course distinction explains why E4 is not an immigrant story?

Select one.

• Prejudice versus discrimination
• Immigrant versus colonized or incorporated peoples
• Cultural assimilation versus structural assimilation
• Race versus ethnicity

Termination ended tribes' federal relationship, and relocation moved Native families into city wage work. Read with the theories of belonging, which framework names the direction both policies pushed?

Select one.

• Cultural pluralism, keeping distinct cultures alive side by side within one shared democracy
• Double consciousness, seeing oneself through the eyes of others
• Assimilation, a group taking on the dominant culture and entering its institutions
• Segmented assimilation, the different paths of immigrants' children