NAS 100 EXAM 1 REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Anton Treuer
Answer:
a native american that lived on Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, Professor of Ojibwe at
Bemidji State University, attended Princeton University for his BA and University of Minnesota for his
PhD; he is the author of of everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
Question:
2. Ojibwe
Answer:
An early American Indian group living in northeastern Minnesota. According to oral history, they migrated
to Minnesota from an area near the Atlantic Ocean. also known as Chippewa
Question:
3. Ojibwe History
Answer:
The Chippewas were allies of the French and French traders often married Chippewa women. Chippewa
warriors fought with the French against the British in the French and Indian War. But political alliances
changed with the times. During the American Revolution the Chippewas sided with the British against the
American
Question:
4. Anishniaabe
Answer:
"the people"; the autonym for a group of culturally related indigenous peoples in what are now Canada and
the United States, such as the Ojibwe
Question:
5. Sovereignty
Answer:
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states; in Native
American terms, it states how the state government has little to no effect on reservations of Indians due to
treaties signed by the federal government; Native Americans have their own rules of how to run their land
Question:
6. Christopher Columbus
Answer:
*former slave trader and Catalonia pirate looking for a way out of Europe (wanted money and fame, + get
away from the plague) *associated with disease (smallpox, plague in new world), killings (gallows, dogs,
women, and children), and genocide on his 2nd voyage when he would gold *"Founded America"
, Question:
7. Requierimiento
Answer:
*Belief that when the Spanish "discovered" new places the natives must convert to Christianity and obey
the Spanish *text that was read to non-Christians pretty much saying that they get to take our land, family,
and goods. if you refuse, you die
Question:
8. Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Answer:
*provided a framework for Christian explorers, in the name of their sovereign, to lay claim to territories
uninhabited by Christians. If the lands were vacant, then they could be defined as "discovered" and
sovereignty claimed. *Indigenous Peoples, because they were non-Christians, were not human and
therefore the land was empty or terra nullius. But, because they were not Christians the land was deemed
terra nullius.
Question:
9. 1763 Royal Proclamation
Answer:
*Aboriginal nations recognized by British crown as "autonomous political entities with a right to have
their own land and govern their own affairs"; aka this forbade settlers from claiming land from the
Aboriginal occupants, unless it has been first bought by the Crown and then sold to the settlers. The Royal
Proclamation further sets out that only the Crown can buy land from First Nations. *no settlement west of
the Appalachians
Question:
10. 1830 Indian Removal Act
Answer:
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the
Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but
many resisted the relocation policy
Question:
11. 1883 Indian Religious Crimes Code
Answer:
indians weren't allowed to practice their own religion and their ceremonies/traditions; gave agency
superintendents authority to use force or imprisonment to stop practices they felt were immoral,
subversive, or counter to government assimilation policies. Though all Native American dancing was
denounced, government attention and a great deal of controversy eventually centered on the Pueblos and
their dances
Question:
12. 1887 General Allotment Act (Dawes Act)
Answer:
Abolished reservations and gave Native Americans 40-160 acres of land. Assimilate Plains Indians into
farming. Escalated intra-tribal exchange and entry into mainstream America; forced Native Americans to
"assume a capitalist and proprietary relationship with property" that did not previously exist
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Anton Treuer
Answer:
a native american that lived on Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, Professor of Ojibwe at
Bemidji State University, attended Princeton University for his BA and University of Minnesota for his
PhD; he is the author of of everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask
Question:
2. Ojibwe
Answer:
An early American Indian group living in northeastern Minnesota. According to oral history, they migrated
to Minnesota from an area near the Atlantic Ocean. also known as Chippewa
Question:
3. Ojibwe History
Answer:
The Chippewas were allies of the French and French traders often married Chippewa women. Chippewa
warriors fought with the French against the British in the French and Indian War. But political alliances
changed with the times. During the American Revolution the Chippewas sided with the British against the
American
Question:
4. Anishniaabe
Answer:
"the people"; the autonym for a group of culturally related indigenous peoples in what are now Canada and
the United States, such as the Ojibwe
Question:
5. Sovereignty
Answer:
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states; in Native
American terms, it states how the state government has little to no effect on reservations of Indians due to
treaties signed by the federal government; Native Americans have their own rules of how to run their land
Question:
6. Christopher Columbus
Answer:
*former slave trader and Catalonia pirate looking for a way out of Europe (wanted money and fame, + get
away from the plague) *associated with disease (smallpox, plague in new world), killings (gallows, dogs,
women, and children), and genocide on his 2nd voyage when he would gold *"Founded America"
, Question:
7. Requierimiento
Answer:
*Belief that when the Spanish "discovered" new places the natives must convert to Christianity and obey
the Spanish *text that was read to non-Christians pretty much saying that they get to take our land, family,
and goods. if you refuse, you die
Question:
8. Doctrine of Christian Discovery
Answer:
*provided a framework for Christian explorers, in the name of their sovereign, to lay claim to territories
uninhabited by Christians. If the lands were vacant, then they could be defined as "discovered" and
sovereignty claimed. *Indigenous Peoples, because they were non-Christians, were not human and
therefore the land was empty or terra nullius. But, because they were not Christians the land was deemed
terra nullius.
Question:
9. 1763 Royal Proclamation
Answer:
*Aboriginal nations recognized by British crown as "autonomous political entities with a right to have
their own land and govern their own affairs"; aka this forbade settlers from claiming land from the
Aboriginal occupants, unless it has been first bought by the Crown and then sold to the settlers. The Royal
Proclamation further sets out that only the Crown can buy land from First Nations. *no settlement west of
the Appalachians
Question:
10. 1830 Indian Removal Act
Answer:
signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the
Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but
many resisted the relocation policy
Question:
11. 1883 Indian Religious Crimes Code
Answer:
indians weren't allowed to practice their own religion and their ceremonies/traditions; gave agency
superintendents authority to use force or imprisonment to stop practices they felt were immoral,
subversive, or counter to government assimilation policies. Though all Native American dancing was
denounced, government attention and a great deal of controversy eventually centered on the Pueblos and
their dances
Question:
12. 1887 General Allotment Act (Dawes Act)
Answer:
Abolished reservations and gave Native Americans 40-160 acres of land. Assimilate Plains Indians into
farming. Escalated intra-tribal exchange and entry into mainstream America; forced Native Americans to
"assume a capitalist and proprietary relationship with property" that did not previously exist
