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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 is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

2. What was the result of Christian missions on the reservations?

3. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

4. Why are the Five Civilized Tribes thus named?

5. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Indians share with the Hebrews of the Old Testament?

2. What, according to the author, does white America depend on as culture?

3. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

4. What have been the views, according to the author, of Christianity regarding slavery, poverty and treachery?

5. What does the author think about the Republican political party?

6. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

7. Why have many tribes decided NOT to use government help to build up their reservations?

8. Do the Indians deserve the services they get? Why? Why not?

9. Why do the Indians consider Indian policy foreign policy?

10. According to Indian history, when did the reservation system really begin to improve and what happened when it did?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the Civil Rights movement and who did it benefit? What role did American Indians play in this movement and how did it affect them?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the American Indian with the Jews of Egypt. What are the differences? Similarities? What are they?

Essay Topic 3

Where do the myths about American Indians come from? How are they perpetuated today?

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