Indigenous People

Answer The following 19 questions. The assignment instructions are on Deloria’s assignment instruction file and the answers are on Deloria’s Custer died for your sins file. Please do not use external links, all answers are on Deloria’s Custer died for your sins file.
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Question: Why do many white Americans claim indigenous ancestry according
to Deloria?
Question: Why do very few white Americans claim a male indigenous ancestor
according to Deloria?
Question: Why do many white Americans claim to have an indigenous princess
as an ancestor according to Deloria?
Question: Why
does Deloria state that whites treated indigenous peoples as “wild
animals”?
Question: Why
does Deloria state that whites treated African Americans as “draft
animals”?
Question: Why
does Deloria argue that whites started to treat indigenous people as human
beings as a way to oppress them further?
Question: How
have African Americans pursued racial justice according to Deloria?
Question: According
to Deloria, why would indigenous peoples not want to pursue the same type of
racial justice as African Americans?
Question: When the
U.S. government broke the Pickering treaty, what happened to the Seneca?
Question: What was
promised but never given to the Delawares and Cherokees?
Question: If
individual whites violated indigenous treaty rights, what was supposed to
happen, and what did actually happen?
Question: What lesson
does Deloria draw from the 1791 Treaty with the Cherokees?
Question: Many
treaties concerned land use and rights. What are the overall effects of treaty
violations regarding land?
Question: What is an
indigenous treaty right that has been violated repeatedly according to Deloria?
Question: How were the
Chippewa defrauded by the U.S. government?
Question: What is a
general effect of the many violations of indigenous treaty rights?
Question: Which course
reading does the quote from p. 27, which calls for indigenous independence,
most resemble?
Question: Deloria
proposes several concrete solutions on pp. 51-52. This multiple-choice presents
you with 6 proposals: 5 correct options (i.e. 5 proposals Deloria
made), and one incorrect option. Please identify the
one incorrect option. (2 points on this question; no partial points)
Question: What is the
title of the Deloria reading? (4 points that everyone should earn!).

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