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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 long was the protest on the edge of the Standing Rock Reservation against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline?

2. By 1975, how many Indian-run schools were there across the U.S. and Canada with culturally specific curricula?

3. When was the dam built that created Lake Oahe and submerged hisotrical Mandan and Hidatsa sites?

4. How many of the federally recognized Indian tribes in the U.S. have game operations?

5. By what percent did the number of Indian-owned businesses grow between 1990 and 1997?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and why was the first blood-quantum law passed in Virginia?

2. What were the Wozupi Tribal Gardens?

3. What did Indian tribes get when Helen Bryan and her husband sued regarding property taxes?

4. What happened to Jeannette Bissonette, and how was her killer found?

5. How did Eddy Pablo sum up what it was like in Tulalip?

6. What was Bob Matthews' new venture in "Anna Mae Aquash"?

7. How did Raymond Yellow Thunder die, and what did his attackers get for his murder?

8. What group was formed by Indians in 1944, and what were their goals?

9. In 1969, why was their a takeover of Alcatraz Island?

10. What was the Kansas Act?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Indians resisted the policies and goals of the whites. How did Indians resist the policies and goals of the whites? What role did adaptation play in their resistance?

Essay Topic 2

Clyde Warrior wrote an essay that described “Five Types of Young Indians.” What were the five types of Indians that Warrior wrote about in his essay? What did his essay reveal about self-esteem and Indians?

Essay Topic 3

David Treuer is an Ojibwe who grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation. Why did Treuer write The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee?

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