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Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
He said this about allotment "a mighty pulverizing engine intended to break up the tribal mass"
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What is Ex Parte Crow Dog?
The Seven Major Crimes Act is a result of this court case
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Who is Ira Hayes?
He took part in raising the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima
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What is tribal sovereignty?
Tribes who rejected the IRA felt that it restricted this
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What is 25 years?
The amount of time allotments spent in trust status
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Who is Shakespeare?
He said "laying out ten to see a dead Indian"
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What is the Iroquois?
This confederacy refused to accept US citizenship status in 1924 and are still not considered US citizens
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Who is Joe Medicine Crow?
He was the last war chief of the Crow tribe
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What is Indian Preference?
A way to provide positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service
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What is Carlisle?
This was the first Indian Boarding School in the United States
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Who was Richard Henry Pratt?
He said this in reference to boarding schools, "kill the Indian save the man"
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What is Fort Shaw?
A girls basketball team from this boarding school was crowned "World's Basket Ball Champions"
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What is a swastica?
A symbol used in traditional Native art that has not been used since the 1940s
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What is "The Problem of Indian Administration"?
The Merriam Report 1928 was also known by this title
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Who is Henry Dawes?
He is associated with the General Allotment Act
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Who is George W. Bush?
He had this to say about tribal sovereignty, "tribal sovereignty means just that; it's sovereign"
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Who is Charles Curtis?
He is considered the first Native American Vice President
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What is Navajo Code?
The only code not broken by the Japanese
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Who is Burton K. Wheeler?
The politician from Montana associated with the IRA
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What is Rocky Boy?
The only Montana reservation that was not allotted
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Who is General William T. Sherman?
He said this in reference to reservations, "a tract of land entirely occupied by Indians and entirely surrounded by white thieves"
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What is an Act of Congress, Executive Order, and Treaty?
The three ways in which a reservation is created
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What is 1/3?
The amount of able-bodied Native men between 18 and 30 that served in the US military
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What is the Secretary of the Interior?
For both IRA and non-IRA tribes this person gives the final approval for constitutional changes
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What is religious supplantation?
The federal government funding the establishment of missions is an example of this
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