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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. When was an order for Sitting Bull's arrest issued?

2. Where did Columbus land in 1492?

3. How early were two and then three agencies created to treat and trade with Indian tribes?

4. When did Samuel de Champlain land at the site that would become Quebec?

5. When Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1513, how long had Indians been living there?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Treuer describe the Ojibwe and their beginnings?

2. What happened when Chief Standing Bear and his followers took the chief's eldest son's body to be buried in Nebraska on their ancestral homelands?

3. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, how was the North American continent divided?

4. What type of structures did the Nasaazi construct?

5. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?

6. What was the purpose of the Indian boarding schools?

7. What was allotment?

8. What is the book about?

9. What was the First Seminole War, and what happened after the war?

10. Why are there not many archaeological findings in the Southeast on the Atlantic coast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Blood quantum is one way to determine who is and is not Indian. Why is the question of who is and who is not an Indian complicated? Why is blood quantum one way of determining who is Indian? What did Treuer believe were better ways? Why is it necessary to know who is and is not an Indian?

Essay Topic 2

Arthur Vivian Watkins was a devout Mormon from Utah who became a U.S. Senator. What did Watkins believe about Indians and the best way to deal with them? How did being a Mormon influence how Watkins made policy and why he believed in termination?

Essay Topic 3

Migration is the movement of people from one place to another. How did war cause a migration of the Indian people? How was that different from migrations of Indians in the past?

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