Read chapter VII in Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination, and answer the following questions:

1. The definition of genocide in this chapter has five components. What are those components and how many of them apply to what happened to Native Americans?
2. Who was Pocahontas?
3. Who suggested that rum might be a way to extirpate (to completely kill off or get rid of) Native Americans?
4. What did Clergyman Timothy Flint suggest (what was he really saying) in his descriptions of Native Americans?
5. What percentage of land in this country is now owned by Native Americans?
6. What is the purpose of the IIM trust?

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7. How did the Spanish refer to Indians in the sixteenth century?

8. What did some Spanish conquerors use to feed the hungry animals?

9. How did the author of The Wizard of Oz feel about Native Americans?

10. When was the sign ?No Dogs or Indians Allowed,? removed from the door of a bar in Scenic, South Dakota?

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11. What decision was recently made by a local newspaper in Portland, Oregon?

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12. What is the origin of the word 'squaw'?

13. What were Squaw Bay and Squaw Creek renamed?

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14. Where is the poorest county in America?

15. About how many Indian lawyers are there now?

16. When congress ratified treaties with native people, what did the native people most often have to give up?

17. How does the supreme court define Indian nations?

18. What happened in the 1950?s that caused many tribes to cease to exist?