Problems for American Indian Heritage class
Problem 1
The Melody article partially reconstructs the Oglala creation story based on the J.R. Walker's manuscript.
True
False
Problem 2
Ella Deloria critiques the J.R walker manuscript based on her own knowledge.
True
False
Problem 3
In the story Rabbit Boy, ___________________ forgets the Rabbit Boy's song and is cut up and never comes back to life.
Blood Clot
Iktome
Changing Women
Old One
Problem 4
According to the Cheyenne story, "Great Medicine Makes a Beautiful Country" The Great Spirit created _____________ kinds of human beings.
Three
Four
Five
Two
Problem 5
The Kumeyaay have ____________________ reservations in San Diego County.
Seventeen
Fifteen
Thirteen
Ten
Problem 6
According to the Kumeyaay story of creation Tu-Chai-Pai made the world.
True
False
Problem 7
The Miwok story "The World Before the Coming of the Indians" tells of a great cannibal giant named ________________________.
Jon Snow
Uwulin
Kuksu
Achomawi
Problem 8
______ romanticize an "authentic" and "traditional" Native American culture whose spirituality can save them from their own sense of malaise.
European's
American Indians
Medicine men
New Agers
Problem 9
Aldred contends that the New Age movement is primarily a consumerist movement.
True
False
Problem 10
The term ______________ refers to those New Age authors who claim the ability to teach their consumers how to practice Native American Spirituality.
Teachers of the sky
Plastic Medicine People
Shamans
Healers
Problem 11
Native Americans support the work of New Age authors because it at least teaches people something about Native spirituality.
True
False
Problem 12
Mary Elizabeth Marlow writes about Beautiful Painted Arrow...who tells Marlow he has seen two kachinas landing in a space machine and explains his philosophy through allusions to Dancing with Wolves.
True
False
Problem 13
New Agers argue that their right to assembly gave them the "right" to Native American religion.
True
False
Problem 14
Gerald Vizenor refers to New Age plastic shamans as ___________________________.
Post Indian Warriors
playing Indian
simulations of the Indian
postmodern
Problem 15
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was passed by Congress in 1978.
True
False
Problem 16
___________ collected more than 1,000 skulls, including many Native Americans.
Thomas Jefferson
Vine Deloria Jr.
James Ridding
Samuel Morton
Problem 17
The passage of AIRFA and NAGPRA has made it possible for Native Americans to deal with state institutions.
True
False
Problem 18
NAGRPA exposed the practice of institutional racism toward Native Americans.
True
False
Problem 19
At __________ there is a designated cemetery site for the repatriation of Native remains.
The Smithsonian
Fort Hood
Camp Pendelton
University of Missouri
Problem 20
Many tribes in had no separate word for religion or spirituality.
True
False
Problem 21
In _____________________ female healers and midwives were often punished or killed on charges of witchcraft.
Indian communities
1920's Boston
Europe
nature
Problem 22
In the 1880's the penalty for breaking laws prohibiting religious behavior often included ____________________________________.
whipping
banishment
withholding rations
withholding family
Problem 23
When Natives gained citizenship in 1924 it ensured that Native religious freedoms would be protected under the First Amendment.
True
False.