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

2. What does not overlap across state boundaries?

3. What is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

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

5. What is the purpose of the Oklahoma Original Cherokee Community Organization?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

6. Describe the treatment of the Choctaws. Why was their treatment worse when compared to other Indian peoples?

7. 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?

8. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's opinion of welfare? Does he think it necessary for Indians? Why? Why not?

Essay Topic 2

Name three important treaties and two important laws passed that were significant to the lives of American Indians. Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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