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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 the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published?

2. In 1863, how much land were the Red Lake Band and Pembina Band of Ojibwe coerced into signing away?

3. On what lake is the town of Bena?

4. When did Columbus make a fourth voyage to the Caribbean?

5. How long did Canada have a boarding school system for Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

3. What type of structures did the Nasaazi construct?

4. By the end of 1890, how did everything seem to be over for Indians?

5. What was allotment?

6. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?

7. Why were Indians often found at the front when they fought for the U.S.?

8. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?

9. What were the Hopewell cutlures and how did they bury their dead?

10. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Archaeology and historical records can be used to uncover the past. What common misconceptions are there about Indians? How is new historical and archeological information being used to refute common misconceptions about Indians and their past?

Essay Topic 2

Sam Cleveland had a life that was molded by difficult circumstances. How was Cleveland’s life molded by difficult circumstances? How did he learn to survive and fight against powerlessness?

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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