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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 year did the Congressional policy of termination begin?

2. Why are the Pyramid Lake Paiutes poor?

3. What did early treaties allow the tribes to do to white men violating their laws and borders?

4. What is the oldest Indian treaty between the United States and the Seneca tribe?

5. What does the author believe is active in the private sector?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Termination such a tragedy for the people of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin?

2. What did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe do?

3. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

4. What is the history of the Sioux who lived along the Missouri River?

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How can laws be open and creative and not restrictive? Give examples? If laws were written in the way, would this benefit all people? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Who was Oliver La Farge and why did he play a role in Indian affairs? How was he helpful to the American Indian? What does the author believe he was after?

Essay Topic 3

What did the hippies take from Indian culture? How did they succeed? How and why did they fail?

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