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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 did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

2. Blacks (African Americans) and Indians (American Indians) defines racial problems with one focal point. What is it?

3. How does the Native American Church view death?

4. What did the white man systematically destroy for the Indians?

5. What did Billy Mills do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is welfare based on?

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

3. Why were other groups insulted by the cards that read "We Shall Overrun?"

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Name three important treaties and two important laws passed that were significant to the lives of American Indians. Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why does the author believe that Indians will rule America again at some point? What does white America lack, in his opinion, that will turn the tide of white rule in America?

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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