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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. In 1967, where was the conference on Manpower held?

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

3. How do the Indians control social situations?

4. Among the Sioux in the Dakotas, what was the Sun Dance reinterpreted as?

5. Who was Clyde Warrior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Banyaca and what was his message?

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

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

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

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

8. What is welfare based on?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare the struggle of the American Indian to the African American. What are the similarities? What are the differences? Give examples.

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