Why does the United States treat Native Americans differently from racial minority groups like African American, Latinos and Asians?

A. Tribes are considered sovereign nations based on their political relationship to the U.S. and not belonging to a particular racial/ethnic minority

B. Tribes suffered more than these other groups and were victims of genocide

C.Tribes were defined as indentured servants

D. Tribes are international units not recognized by the U.S

The legislation that focused on relocating indigenous people to major urban centers and provided the justification for distancing Natives from tribal life and identity was called?

A.Dawes Act of 1887

B.The Indian Relocation Act of 1956

C.The Walleye Wars

D.Nuclear Proliferation Act

Who is a Native American?

A) A person who petitions the U.S. congress for Indian status

B) A person who is of some degree Indian blood that is recognized as an Indian by a tribe/village and/or the United States

C) A person who is placed on reservation to live for an extended period of time

D) None of the above

What is an Indian Tribe?

A) A nation of people who organized against the imposition of U.S. colonialism

B) A body of people bound together by blood ties who were socially, politically, and religiously organized and who lived together in a defined territory and who spoke a common language or dialect

C) .An unincorporated territory

D) None of the above

What is a reservation?

A) A land base that tribe are required to live in or risk decertification as a tribe

B) A land base that a tribe reserved for itself when it relinquished its other land areas to the U.S. through treaties

C).A land base governed the international declaration of Human Rights

D)None of the above