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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 are the two mainstream American Indian organizations?

3. Why do anthropologists believe Indians drink?

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

5. What does the author believe anthropologists should do in the future?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the Five Civilized Tribes and why are they referred to in this way?

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

6. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

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

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

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 paternalism?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare the American Indian with the Jews of Egypt. What are the differences? Similarities? What are they?

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