Answers
Which of the following is true of American Indians as sports symbols? - answer All of
the above
A. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) voted to penalize universities
that continued to use them.
B. Some Indian tribes supported universities' use of the sports symbols.
C. The Civil Rights Commission has argued that the use of American Indians as sports
symbols prevents people from learning about real American Indians and their culture.
Which of the following is true of the American Indian/Alaska Native population? - answer
All of the above.
A. It began to recover during the 1900s due to declining mortality rates and increasing
fertility rates.
B. Changes in self-identification have contributed to increases in the population.
C. Less than 2% of the U.S. population is American Indian and Alaska Natives.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act - answer has been used in English only cases on
behalf of American Indians.
Wilma Mankiller - answer was the first woman in modern history to serve as chief of
an American Indian tribe.
Interracial marriage - answer was illegal until a 1967 Supreme Court decision.
Which of the following is true of multiracial people? - answer all of the above
A. Multiracial people may appear to be one race or the other, rather than multiracial.
B. Care should be taken to avoid grouping multiracials with one group and ignoring the
other(s) aspects of their identity.
C. Having a culture of nondiscrimination in an organization would help avoid inadvertent
discrimination against invisibly multiracial individuals
According to the "one-drop rule" - answer Anyone with one known Black ancestor
was deemed Black, regardless of the number or proportion of non-Black ancestors.
Research on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women shows that - answer
American Indian women managers navigate between two distinctive but interconnected
worlds.