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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 provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

2. How does the Native American Church view death?

3. How many area offices does the Bureau of Indian Affairs have throughout the country?

4. What did the office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Albuquerque, New Mexico do to the Tigua of El Paso?

5. Where did Billy Mills grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

9. What happened when the government decided to move the Bureau of Indian Affairs to Health, Education and Welfare?

10. Why does the joke about Falling Rocks bridge the racial gap?

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

Compare the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Johnson. What advances did the American Indian make during these times?

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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