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

2. What did treaties initially do?

3. Which group of Indians did Arthur Watkins target first in his work for the government?

4. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?

5. When the author says that whites claim Indian heritage, what side of their family tree do they claim it comes from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

2. What is the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe known for?

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

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

5. What happens every summer with work camps and teenagers? What do the teenagers learn in one month that adults do not understand? What is the author's point about this program?

6. 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?

7. What was the term "dependency," as used in the Delaware Treaty of September 17, 1778?

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

9. What are the myths associated with Indian Affairs?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the author believe that Indians will rule America again at some point? What does white America lack, in his opinion, that will turn the tide of white rule in America?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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