Understanding Native American Reservations
This worksheet explores the history, purpose, and contemporary issues surrounding Native American reservations in the United States.
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Understanding Native American Reservations
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your knowledge. Use complete sentences for short answer questions.
1. What was the primary purpose of establishing Native American reservations?
To promote cultural exchange and integration.
To relocate Native American tribes to designated lands, often to open up other lands for non-Native settlement.
To create protected areas for wildlife conservation.
To establish military outposts for defense.
2. Which act aimed to break up tribal lands into individual allotments, further diminishing Native American landholdings?
Indian Reorganization Act
Dawes Act (General Allotment Act)
Indian Removal Act
Homestead Act
3. The concept of tribal sovereignty means that Native American tribes have the right to themselves and their lands.
4. Many treaties signed between the U.S. government and Native American tribes were often or broken.
5. Explain two significant challenges faced by residents of Native American reservations today.
6. How does the unique legal status of reservations impact the lives of Native American citizens?
7. All Native American tribes in the United States have reservations.
True
False
8. The U.S. government has always upheld its treaty obligations with Native American tribes without fail.
True
False
Match the term on the left with its description on the right.
9. Sovereignty
a. Policy of forced assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream American society
10. Allotment
b. The authority of a state to govern itself or another state
11. Assimilation
c. Division of common tribal land into individual parcels