HIST 355B Final Examination Study Guide

Possible IDS: (Three of these will appear on the final exam, you will answer two, 25pts each)

Dawes Act (1887)	Indian Schools	Ishi: Exploited or Saved?
Failures of Assimilation	John Collier	Indians’ New Deal
Indians and WWII	Compensation	Termination
Relocation	Indians in the 1960s	AIM
“Chip” Wadena	Decline of AIM	Indian Mascots
Indian Casinos	Misplaced Trust	Indian Artifacts	Health on the Reservation

Possible Essay Questions: (One of the following questions will appear on the final exam, 50 pts)

1) Profiting from Indians 101: You are an executive at a large company that has interests in mining, ranching, and gaming ventures and you have been tasked with finding ways to make money from Indian reservations. Your sole objective is to make profits for your company. With the history of the late 19th^th through the 21^st century as your guide, what would you do to make money? How would you try to gain access to Indian lands and resources? What historical policies would you lobby the government to enact? What policies would you not want to see enacted? (The idea here is to show me, in a creative way, what you know about the history of outside efforts to control Indian resources and the policies governing Indian resources).

2) Turn Back the Clock and Try Again: You are a reformer during the late-19th though the mid-20^th centuries, what policies would you advocate for improving the conditions of Native American peoples? What obstacles do you think your plans will face? Your answer should include consideration of the actual policies that the US tried to implement during the period. (The idea here is to show me, in a creative way, what you know about the history of Indian policy and about the internal dynamics in Native societies over time, white prejudices of the era(s), and the various interest groups that shaped Indian policy).

3) Contemporary Indian Life: Considering modern Native American life, what problems of the past have been solved for Indians? How and in what way were those problems solved? What problems have endured? Why do those particular problems remain? What new difficulties and tensions has the modern era produced? When and how did those new difficulties and tensions develop?