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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 did Senator Clinton Anderson announce in 1968?

2. What is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for the area offices of the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

3. What was one good, tangible result of Indian participation in the Poor People's Campaign?

4. What is the most popular and enduring subject of Indian humor?

5. When Indians looked at pictures of the Disciples, what were they surprised to find?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Bureau of Indian Affairs give the Indians an advantage for services over other Americans in need?

2. According to Indian history, when did the reservation system really begin to improve and what happened when it did?

3. What, according to the author, does white America depend on as culture?

4. Why have the Indians never been involved with the Civil Rights movement?

5. Discuss the Indian religious idea of sharing one's goods.

6. How does white culture destroy other cultures?

7. Why have many tribes decided NOT to use government help to build up their reservations?

8. What did missionaries do to the Indian's religious life when they arrived on the reservations?

9. Why does the joke about Falling Rocks bridge the racial gap?

10. What does the author believe that every group must have to become a reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has college affected young Indians? Has it done harm, good, or both? How do young Indians view their world differently than older Indians in their tribes?

Essay Topic 2

How has the Christian church affected life on the reservation for Indians? How would the reservations be different today if the Christian church had never come to the reservations?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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