Final Exam

Answer the following questions using the specified readings, class discussion, lecture
and any additional readings from this course. Answer each question with between one
and three paragraphs the completeness and thoughtfulness of your answer is more
important than the length of your response.
1. Utilizing relevant readings from the reader, describe: What is a terminated tribe? What is a
restored tribe? In California, explain how a restored tribe can build a casino on lands that were
not originally part of the terminated reservation?
2. Using Indian Cartography by Deborah Miranda from The Dirt is Red Here and
Tending the Wild describe the differences and similarities between the Western conceptualization of
nature versus American Indian conceptualization of nature and how this is manifested through
respective forms of land and wildlife management.
3. Describe the potential impact of alcoholism on native individuals and communities utilizing
Native American Postcolonial Psychology, Grand Avenue and any of Deborah Miranda's writings
utilized within this class.
4. Describe potential psychological and community impacts of intergenerational trauma using
any of the readings:
5. Using at least one reading from Group A and one from Group B (see below) describe the
consequences of European and Institutional American Policies on Native Peoples and the
landscape of California.
Group A
"Gathering Together in Hubs: Claiming Home and the Sacred in an Urban Area,"
Renya Ramirez
"The Relocation Program and Urbanization," Donald Fixico
"Adrift with the Indian Office," Mark Miller
Rez Life
Group B
Reading: Spanish Borderlands Source Book, Edward Castillo
Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization, Edward Castillo
"The Last Woman From Petaluma," Greg Sarris
6. Using at least one reading from Group A and one from Group B (see above), describe symbolic
and literal native resistance to the implementation of the policies you described above. In order
to receive credit for this question, please use at least one reading from each group that is different
from the readings you used to answer the previous question.
7. Use any (and at least one) of the readings by Deborah Miranda and any story from Grand Avenue to
illustrate the relationship between oppression and resistance. Using your answers to the two
previous questions may aid you in this.
8. Describe how the oral tradition function as a tool of resistance using one of these two texts:
Kashaya Texts

The Ohlone Way

and
Any of these three texts:
To Make Story Again in the World from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Grand Avenue
Mabel McKay
9. Describe at least one way in which Native American people of California negotiate their
identity in response to oppression using at least one of the following texts:
Lies My Ancestors Told for Me from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Cowboys and Indians by Sylvia Ross from The Dirt is Red Here
Mixedblood Messages by Louis Owens
10. Describe the difference between representation and appropriation, along the the impact of
each. Use any of the below:
Mestiza Nation from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Capitalists? From The Dirt is Red Here (to be emailed)
Cowboys and Indians by Sylvia Ross from The Dirt is Red Here
Mixedblood Messages by Louis Owens
"Our People, Our Land, Our Images," Tsinhnahjinnie
The Diggers from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
11. Describe the role of education, anthropology and/or history in the continuation of stereotypes
and disinformation and its impact on Native Americans and Non-Natives using ideas from at
least two of the following texts and ideas discussed in section:
Soledad and The Basement in the Bone Museum from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Mixedblood Messages by Louis Owens
"Our People, Our Land, Our Images," Tsinhnahjinnie
The Diggers from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
Gonaway Tribe: Field Notes from Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda