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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. Who is Frank Takes Gun?

2. What is the reputation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Juneau?

3. Who is the prophet of peace on the Hopi reservation?

4. What was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?

5. What Department was the Bureau of Indian Affairs transferred to when it opened in 1849?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author believe that every group must have to become a reality?

3. What is the problem with earmarked money? What is earmarked money?

4. What does the author think about the Republican political party?

5. What did missionaries do to the Indian's religious life when they arrived on the reservations?

6. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

9. What, according to the author, does white America depend on as culture?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has the Christian church affected life on the reservation for Indians? How would the reservations be different today if the Christian church had never come to the reservations?

Essay Topic 2

Compare corporations with tribal existence. Why does the author view it as the same? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 3

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

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