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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 is the joke about the Bureau of Indian Affairs area office in Portland?

2. What did Louie Sitting Crow do for fun?

3. Under what umbrella did the Bureau of Indian Affairs begin?

4. What does the Native American Church use in its sacramental worship life?

5. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Indians share with the Hebrews of the Old Testament?

2. Discuss the Indian religious idea of sharing one's goods.

3. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

4. Why do the Indians consider Indian policy foreign policy?

5. What have been the views, according to the author, of Christianity regarding slavery, poverty and treachery?

6. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

7. Do the Indians deserve the services they get? Why? Why not?

8. How does the Bureau of Indian Affairs give the Indians an advantage for services over other Americans in need?

9. How is teasing used as a teaching tool for Indians and how can it be used as a parenting tool?

10. What does the Indian religion require of its followers that is so vastly different from Christian religions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where do the myths about American Indians come from? How are they perpetuated today?

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 is Paternalism and how does it relate to the relationship between the American government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs? Is this a relationship that can be altered in the future? How?

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