Exam 6: Native Americans: From Conquest to Tribal Survival in a Postindustrial Society

The Great Sioux Nation tribes protested the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline because the pipeline ______.

Describe the effects of paternalism and coercive acculturation on Native Americans. Explain how these processes have shaped the history and future of the group.

Which of the following statements about Native Americans is true?

Programs under the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) included opportunities for women that helped prepare them for jobs off the reservation in the fields of nursing and clerical work.

Characterize the contemporary status of Native Americans in terms of acculturation, secondary structural integration, and primary structural assimilation. How has the reservation shaped these processes? How do Native Americans compare with African Americans?

Native Americans are highly individualistic, rather than group-oriented.

The necessity of members of the Red Power movement to become fluent in English, law, and policy in order to advocate for tribal autonomy supports which of the following conclusions about assimilation?

Efforts to develop Native American reservations have focused on creating jobs by ______.

The concept of private property among Native Americans ______.

Native American cultures tend to understand humans as ______.

Over the past century, Native Americans have become increasingly rural.

Many of the treaties established during the 1800s have been broken, although some tribes have had success with regaining treaty rights through the court system.

Native Americans have been able to preserve their traditions in ways African Americans have not due to ______.

The main goal of Native Americans was to integrate into mainstream society as quickly as possible.

Native Americans have been more successful than African Americans in preserving their traditional cultures.

As a result of the Dawes Act of 1887, Native Americans ______.

The Red Power movement was required to strike a balance between ______ in order to best advocate for tribal rights and sovereignty.

Which of the following is true of the Red Power movement?

Which of the following occurred as a result of the government's policy of termination?

Explain this statement: "The Red Power movement was partly assimilationist even though it pursued pluralistic goals and greater autonomy for the tribes."