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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 does an anthropologist come to the reservation to do?

2. Who saved the Florida Seminoles from termination?

3. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

4. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

5. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who did the government go after first during the time of Termination?

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

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

10. What is paternalism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the Reorganization Act? What did it do for Indians? Why was it so important?

Essay Topic 2

Is tribal unity an answer for the future? How has tribal unity been successful? What are the problems associated with tribal unity? What needs to happen in the future?

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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