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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 highest form of behavior in the Native American Church?

2. What did the Supreme Court do in June of 1968?

3. What, according to the joke, is a peace treaty?

4. What provides keen insight into a group's collective psyche?

5. What, according to the author, is welfare designed to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

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

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

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

7. According to Indian history, when did the reservation system really begin to improve and what happened when it did?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the Civil Rights movement and who did it benefit? What role did American Indians play in this movement and how did it affect them?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare the American Indian with the Jews of Egypt. What are the differences? Similarities? What are they?

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