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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 is the name of the court case that defined American Indian water rights?

2. What had Dillon Myer been in charge of during World War II?

3. What was the decision about the Pottawatomie of Kansas during the time of termination?

4. What kind of people do anthropologists believe the Indians are?

5. What did the Meriam Report of 1928 show?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author describe anthropologists? What is his attitude and tone when discussing this group of people?

4. How did William Zimmerman, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs classify existing tribes into categories for Termination?

5. What did the Treaty of August 5, 1826 with the Chippewa tribe do?

6. How did Indians become citizens and what effect did this have on Termination?

7. What is the problem with most books about American Indians, according to the author? What do the incorrect portrayals of the Indians do to harm the image of the Indian, and complicate understanding of the people by others?

8. What happens every summer with work camps and teenagers? What do the teenagers learn in one month that adults do not understand? What is the author's point about this program?

9. Why are hunting and fishing rights important to the Indians of Idaho, Washington and Oregon at the time of this writing?

10. In February 1954, approval was granted for Termination of Indians. Why were the four factors, which Zimmerman implemented in 1947 to classify tribal readiness for termination, not used?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare corporations with tribal existence. Why does the author view it as the same? What are the similarities?

Essay Topic 2

How do Indians view the Kennedy's? Do they feel that the Kennedy administration helped or hurt them? How do they feel about Robert Kennedy? How do Indians view the Kennedy assassinations?

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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