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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. When were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?

2. When were peaceful Blackfeet massacred on the Marais River?

3. How many days did it take to find Zintkala Nuni or Lost Bird after her mother was gunned down at Wounded Knee Creek?

4. How many Indian men were drafted during World War I?

5. When did Sam Cleveland join the Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?

2. What was allotment?

3. Why are there not many archaeological findings in the Southeast on the Atlantic coast?

4. What were the motivations behind Christopher Columbus's journey when the landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492?

5. Who was Sam Cleveland, and how did Treuer describe him?

6. What disease did Treuer believe his cousin Sam battled when he fought?

7. Why did Indians resist the draft during World War I?

8. What was the First Seminole War, and what happened after the war?

9. By the end of 1890, how did everything seem to be over for Indians?

10. What was the purpose of the Indian boarding schools?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Indians ruled the North American continent before the Europeans came. How did Indians lose control of the North American continent? What role did colonialism play in their loss of the continent?

Essay Topic 2

After the treaty period ended, the goal was to assimilate Indians into American society. Why were policies created to integrate Indians into American culture, rather than allow them to retain tribal structures and Indian culture? What were the motives and results of assimilation?

Essay Topic 3

Blood quantum is one way to determine who is and is not Indian. Why is the question of who is and who is not an Indian complicated? Why is blood quantum one way of determining who is Indian? What did Treuer believe were better ways? Why is it necessary to know who is and is not an Indian?

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