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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 1966, what did the secret Presidential Task Force recommend doing with the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

2. What did Martin Luther King organize in the spring of 1968?

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

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

5. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What is Paternalism and how does it relate to the relationship between the American government and the Bureau of Indian Affairs? Is this a relationship that can be altered in the future? How?

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