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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 was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?

2. What do the Indians believe about land?

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

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

5. What, according to the author, will happen to America in the end?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. What was the first program offered by the African Americans after the Civil War and what happened to that program?

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

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

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

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

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

How has the Christian church affected life on the reservation for Indians? How would the reservations be different today if the Christian church had never come to the reservations?

Essay Topic 3

How has college affected young Indians? Has it done harm, good, or both? How do young Indians view their world differently than older Indians in their tribes?

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