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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. How do the Indians control social situations?

2. What was the first concern of mission work on the reservation?

3. What is the highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

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

5. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why have many tribes decided NOT to use government help to build up their reservations?

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

5. According to the author, what would happen if the Bureau of Indian Affairs were abolished?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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