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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Jack agree to do to officer Canby if he will not agree to allow the Modoc to return to their homelands?

2. Where do Santana and Big Tree go to attend peace talks?

3. In what tribe was Hooker Jim a leader?

4. In 1877 the Nez Perces defeat the soldiers at what battle?

5. What happens when the US soldiers confront two Kiowa chiefs, Santana and Lone Wolf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of the buffalo in the Plains Indian way of life. Compare and contrast the view of the importance of the buffalo in white civilization and in the Indian culture.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the differences in how whites and Indians viewed land ownership and how these two views are in conflict with each other. Explain how the Indian view help to lead to the removal of the Indians.

Essay Topic 3

Given the pressure which was growing to settle the West, and given the refusal of Indian tribes to give up their ways of life, how would you have dealt with your role if you had been a military of civilian leader in the West in the mid 1800s? Choose specific events out of the book and explain how you feel the situation could have been handled in some better way, or how you feel the situation was handled in the best way possible.

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