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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 word do the author's people use to mean East?

2. Who wrote The Mishomis Book?

3. What is the scientific name of the black ash tree?

4. Among "The Three Sisters," who is the firstborn?

5. What biologist called ecology "the subversive science" (259)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Nanabozho's first work, as described in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

2. Under what types of conditions do black ash trees grow?

3. Who is the basket maker featured in "Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket"? How is he described?

4. What findings did Laurie's thesis produce in “Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass”?

5. How does the author describe the process of harvesting sweetgrass in the opening of Picking Sweetgrass?

6. What does the East represent in the Anishinaabe belief system?

7. Why is it important to understand that the earth loves people, according to the author in “Epiphany in the Beans”?

8. What are growth rings in trees and how are they formed?

9. What does the author remark about White Man's Footstep in “In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place"?

10. Why do polycultures often succeed above monocultures?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impacts of global and national policies as they relate to climate change and the environment. What efforts have been made to repair our actions of the past? What efforts should be made in the future? How do we go about policy changes?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the meaning of sweetgrass to the Potawatomi people. What does sweetgrass symbolize? How is it used? How is it tended and harvested? What lessons can be learned from sweetgrass?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the meaning of gifts in Native American culture. How was this concept misinterpreted by white settlers in the New World? How do gift economies differ from market economies? How can we go about reconciling the two?

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