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1
The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) was formed to coordinate the development of resources on reservation land.
A)True
B)False
2
The purpose of the Relocation Act (1956) was to move Native Americans from urban areas onto reservations.
A)True
B)False
3
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) returned land to Indian nations in Alaska.
A)True
B)False
4
The economic dependence of Native Americans in federal employment programs and social services increases their colonized status in the United States.
A)True
B)False
5
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is staffed primarily by Native Americans.
A)True
B)False
6
In 2000, 23 percent of 69 Indian communities reported active youth gangs.
A)True
B)False
7
The suicide rate for Indian youth is 2.7 times the rates for other minorities and whites.
A)True
B)False
8
On balance, the various treaties with Native Americans have allowed Native Americans to keep their lands and sustain their culture.
A)True
B)False
9
"Fish-Ins" were conducted by the American Indian Movement (AIM) to protest government interference with traditional Native-American fishing areas.
A)True
B)False
10
Roughly 40 percent of all Native Americans live on or near a reservation, and are thus segregated from the American mainstream.
A)True
B)False
11
Native Americans are overrepresented in white-collar occupations and underrepresented in service occupations.
A)True
B)False
12
The image of a "casino fat cat capitalist" depicts Indians as millionaires with luxury homes and automobiles.
A)True
B)False
13
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) promoted the boarding school as the best vehicle for assimilating Indian youths into mainstream society.
A)True
B)False
14
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 was enacted to prevent the removal of artifacts from Indian burial grounds.
A)True
B)False
15
Over the last decade, Native-American incomes have declined below that of African Americans.
A)True
B)False





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