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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 the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?

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

3. What was the survey of 1086 called?

4. What two tribes seem to have traditional Indian values still intact?

5. Who was Arthur Watkins?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

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

4. What are the myths associated with Indian Affairs?

5. What did anthropologists find about alcoholism on the reservation? What does the author think of this finding?

6. Describe what happens to the Virginia Indians each year at Thanksgiving. What is this in response to?

7. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?

8. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?

9. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the struggle of the American Indian to the African American. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Give examples.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How has college affected young Indians? Has it done harm, good, or both? How do young Indians view their world differently than older Indians in their tribes?

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