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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 did Indian tribes begin to organize themselves formally in spite of the Office of Indian Affairs and the federal government?

2. When did Arizona and New Mexico allow Indians to vote?

3. When was the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee published?

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

5. How many acres of land may have been irrigated by the Hohokam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of structures did the Nasaazi construct?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?

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

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

8. What is the earliest verified record of settlement in North America?

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

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

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

A property tax bill and subsequent court case led to casinos on reservations. What is sovereignty? What did the property tax bill determine about sovereignty? How did a property tax bill and subsequent court case lead to casinos on reservations?

Essay Topic 3

Activism changed from the 1960s to 1990. How did activism change from the 1960s to 1990? What is the new activism? How does it bring the past into the present and what does it promote?

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