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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author suggest that each anthropologist should have to do in order to study a tribe?

2. What, according to the author, is one of the finest things about being an Indian?

3. What, according to the author, did the white man discover that the American Indians still owned of value?

4. What was the survey of 1086 called?

5. What principle did the case of Lone Wolf vs. Hitchcock put forth?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?

2. What are the Five Civilized Tribes and why are they referred to in this way?

3. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

4. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?

5. When the anthropologists stated that the Oglala Sioux need to be warriors, what was really happening to the Oglala Sioux?

6. In February 1954, approval was granted for Termination of Indians. Why were the four factors, which Zimmerman implemented in 1947 to classify tribal readiness for termination, not used?

7. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

8. How did William Zimmerman, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs classify existing tribes into categories for Termination?

9. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

10. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Johnson. What advances did the American Indian make during these times?

Essay Topic 2

Compare corporations with tribal existence. Why does the author view it as the same? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 3

Why must the answer to all Indian issues be a single answer? Why can it not be several answers? Explain the movement of the single answer theory and why this has stopped progress.

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