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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 does the author believe is active in the private sector?
2. According to the author, for those whites who do not claim Indian heritage, what asset do they have that connects them with American Indians?
3. How many tribal communities get federal services?
4. By 1943, what was the Senate Interior Committee convinced should happen?
5. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why has the Indian Reorganization Act responded so well to fit the European white model?
2. Why are the American Indians lost when, in Congressional hearings, the chairman of the committee talks about the Anglo-Saxon heritage of law and order?
3. What happened to the Seneca Nation of New York?
4. What was Frank Church's attitude towards the Indian? Why was this line of thought so harmful during the time of Termination?
5. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?
6. How have the workshops offered by anthropologists affected the young Indians?
7. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?
8. Describe the treatment of the Choctaws. Why was their treatment worse when compared to other Indian peoples?
9. What are the 4 main rules to Rene Descartes' method of research? Was this a good method to examine the lives of Indians for Termination?
10. According to the author, what European background is the law of the United States built on?
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
Name three important treaties and two important laws passed that were significant to the lives of American Indians. Explain your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How can laws be open and creative and not restrictive? Give examples? If laws were written in the way, would this benefit all people? Why?
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