This page is designed to stimulate some on-line discussion of topics which you will be tested on later. I would encourage you to join in by sharing with the other class members some of the insights or ideas you have gained through class or from readings on the Web sites you have explored.

Topics for discussion for Unit I are:

• the structure of the League of Iroquois government
• the relations between the French and the Hurons
• the relation between the English and the Pequots
• the selective adaptations of the Narragansetts

Topics for discussion for Unit II are:

• the ethical teachings of Handsome Lake
• the structure of government of the Cherokee nation by 1830
• the constitutional importance of the Worcester v. Georgia decision
• the effects of the reservation policy on the Sioux

Topics for discussion for Unit III are:

• the motives or intentions behind the policy of assimilation
• the methods used at off-reservation government boarding schools
• the reasons for the rise and decline of the Ghost Dance cult
• why the Bureau of Indian Affairs paternalistic approach to dealing with Indians was unsuccessful

Topics for discussion for Unit IV are:

• the intent of the termination policy of the Eisenhower administration
• the policy's results for Native Americans
• the intent of the self-determination policy of Nixon's administration
• the policy's results for Native Americans

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