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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. The beginning of the ghost dance began with a sweat bath and the burning of what?
2. What does the word inipi mean?
3. When the holy man in the story of the ghost dance saw the beautiful land he saw a land that was dotted with what?
4. In Chapter 12, Lame Deer talks about one thing that made him sad, that the town of Winner was surrounded on all sides by what?
5. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Lame Deer's great-grandfather was killed by mistake.
2. Why does Lame Deer say that Indian children are never alone?
3. What kind of room would serve as a good room for a yuwipi meeting?
4. What would the mothers of daughters afraid of tipi-creepers do to create a "No Trespassing" sign on their daughter and what would the mothers do if they found there had been a tipi-creeper?
5. Who was Leonard Crow Dog?
6. Describe the situation described in Chapter 13 when white students gave an old chief a bottle of little pills.
7. Why does Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes enjoy sitting on Teddy Roosevelt's head more than the other heads on Mount Rushmore?
8. Why does Lame Deer say that the pipe is like an open Bible to him and his people?
9. Describe what happened when Indian police surrounded Sitting Bull's cabin.
10. When a medicine man, or wicasa wakan, is old and nearing the end of his life, who does he try to pass on his vision and knowledge to and what happens if that doesn't work?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe how Lame Deer thinks the white man has destroyed or taken the "spirit" from particular animals and also how the white man has taken away from his own natural body. What disasters befall the white man because of these problems, according to Lame Deer?
Essay Topic 2
In the book, Lame Deer mentions that sometimes parents wanted their daughters to marry a famous chief but sometimes their daughter had her heart set on someone else. Sometimes the daughters would elope. Why do you think the tribe and parents approved of this union after the couple returned from their elopement? Why wasn't the arranged marriage forced by the parents and tribe? How did this help unity of families and the tribe as a whole?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the struggles and experiences that Lame Deer went through that helped him become insightful and respectful of the Sioux culture.
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