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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 would Treuer's father drive Indian kids to Bemidji and then bring them home again?

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

3. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?

4. What weight was Sam Cleveland down to in 2012 so he could wrestle in March?

5. When did the state of Georgia agree to give up claims to land if the federal government would remove or reduce the Indians in Georgia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did President Ulysses S. Grant change the ways the federal government worked with Indian tribes?

2. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, how was the North American continent divided?

3. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

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

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

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

7. What was allotment?

8. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?

9. In 1883, what became Indian offenses, and what was the purpose of a bill passed to establish law and order among the Indians?

10. What happened when Chief Standing Bear and his followers took the chief's eldest son's body to be buried in Nebraska on their ancestral homelands?

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

Sam Cleveland had a life that was molded by difficult circumstances. How was Cleveland’s life molded by difficult circumstances? How did he learn to survive and fight against powerlessness?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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