These study questions and 4 additional questions will be given as short-answer scaled multiple choice essays on Wednesday, April 27.

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #1: The culture areas of North America each contribute some of the elements used as stereotypes of Indians. Identify some of the specific traits involved in these stereotypes you consider central, and discuss what culture area they come from and/or why they have become so generalized in the popular conception of Indians.

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #2: Which idea or representation about Native American life from either the lecture on the Delaware Indians or the Iroquois League most surprised you? Discuss why you found the point unusual, and what you think you learned from the experience.

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #3: Contemporary Native American groups often participate in multiple levels of identity. Cite and explain some of these levels and the contexts in which they operate.

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #4. Discuss the similarities of southern Native American confederacies and tribes (Creek, Choctaw, Cherokee, etc.) and the kinds of settlers who entered the Southern and Mid-Atlantic frontiers (Scots, English, African, etc.) during the 17^th and 18^th centuries. How different or similar were the people involved in contact?

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #5. The traders, military, missionaries, and anthropologists represent four kinds of outside influence on Native American cultures. Compare the positive and negative impacts of these four influences during the 19^th and early 20^th century.

RESPONSE ESSAY OPTION #6 Though the North American Plains Indians represented a highly consistent pattern of subsistence, inter-group interactions, and aesthetic styles, this familiar and almost stereotypical pattern spanned only two centuries. What does the consistency and experience of Plains Indians teach us about Native Americans generally?