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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 traditional Republican myth did Watkins insist on regarding the Indians?
2. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?
3. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?
4. Who was asked to testify before the Senate Civil Service Committee in 1947?
5. How did Utah get the Indians in their state to agree to termination?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did anthropologists find about alcoholism on the reservation? What does the author think of this finding?
2. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?
3. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?
4. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?
5. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?
6. 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?
7. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?
8. When the anthropologists stated that the Oglala Sioux need to be warriors, what was really happening to the Oglala Sioux?
9. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?
10. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?
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 the Christian church affected life on the reservation for Indians? How would the reservations be different today if the Christian church had never come to the reservations?
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