Cultures in Contact
ANT 326L
Spring, 2008
Samuel M. Wilson
Review for the Final Exam
The exam is WEDNESDAY, MAY 09, 7-10 PM
Location: MEZ 1.306
The final exam is really just the 3rd of the regular midterms. It covers the readings, lectures, discussions, films, and other activities since the second midterm.
General Topics
- The evolution of U.S. policy concerning Native Americans
- policies concerning Native American land holding
- Native Americans in the Civil War
- issues relating to assimilation after the Civil War
- assimilation strategies and Indian Schools
- the war on the plains
- The Indian New Deal
- Legal status of Native Americans
- self-determination
Terms:
| allottment | Termination | Retribalization | The Dawes Act |
| Albert B. Fall | Meriam Commission Report | John Collier | Peace Commission |
| Indian Service Schools | American Indian Defense Association | emancipation | Dillon S. Meyer |
| BIA | "Black Seminoles" | cultural pluralism | Cobell Litigation |
| Domestic Dependent Nations | Sovereignty | policies of Lamar and Houston | Native American voting rights |
| trust status / ward | Indian Reorganization Act | self-determination | Native American citizenship |
| Relocation | National Congress of American Indians | Pan-Indianism | Alienation |