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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 have tribes discovered that they must do to make themselves heard?
2. In the minds of most Indians, what is the best way to eradicate a species?
3. What, according to the author at the end of chapter 1, should the government do about the Indians?
4. What French rationalist did the House Interior Committee use as a basis for their study of Indian Affairs?
5. What is the oldest, continuous Indian-run organization?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?
2. Describe what happens to the Virginia Indians each year at Thanksgiving. What is this in response to?
3. 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?
4. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?
5. Why was Termination such a tragedy for the people of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin?
6. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?
7. When the anthropologists stated that the Oglala Sioux need to be warriors, what was really happening to the Oglala Sioux?
8. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?
9. 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?
10. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare the struggle of the American Indian to the African American. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Give examples.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What did the hippies take from Indian culture? How did they succeed? How and why did they fail?
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