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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. How many square miles do the Great Plains cover?

2. From what Indian tribe is Kevin Washburn from?

3. At Carlisle, how old was a girl who was raped in her dormitory bed?

4. How many Lakota survived Wounded Knee?

5. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

5. What was allotment?

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

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

8. In 1883, what became Indian offenses, and what was the purpose of a bill passed to establish law and order among the Indians?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The American Indian Movement (AIM) was established in Minneapolis. Why was AIM created? What were the goals of the organization? What were its successes and failures?

Essay Topic 2

Bob Matthews makes his living from hunting and gathering. How does Bob Matthews make his living from hunting and gathering? How are his efforts a job? How is the way he lives off the land different from the common perception of hunter-gatherers or of off-grid living?

Essay Topic 3

Many Indians struggled with life when they returned home after the war. How did Indians struggle with life when they returned home after the war? How did their war experiences and struggles symbolize the struggles of modern Indians in society?

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