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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. What were the findings of the House Interior Committee headed by Karl Mundt?

2. How much was the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin awarded?

3. What "Civilized" Tribe is among the poorest people in America?

4. When the Wheeler-Howard act was passed, what did the Indians experience for the first time in half a century?

5. Which American Indian tribe is the author a member of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the term "dependency," as used in the Delaware Treaty of September 17, 1778?

2. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?

3. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?

4. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?

5. What criteria, according to the author, do whites use to say that they "understand" Indians?

6. What is unique about the Apache of the Southwest?

7. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?

8. What is the history of the Sioux who lived along the Missouri River?

9. What was the Pickering Treaty? Why was it thus named? What was the final outcome of the Pickering Treaty?

10. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the American Indian with the Jews of Egypt. What are the differences? Similarities? What are they?

Essay Topic 2

Where do the myths about American Indians come from? How are they perpetuated today?

Essay Topic 3

What is the author's opinion of welfare? Does he think it necessary for Indians? Why? Why not?

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