Critical Thinking Questions
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How would you characterize the impact of colonialism on Indigenous peoples?
2
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Considering this chapter and overlapping subjects in previous chapters, what changes have been made within the discipline of anthropology in the 20th and 21st centuries?
3
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What role have casinos played in tribal economic development?
4
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How have Indigenous critiques and Indigenous perspectives changed and developed anthropology?
5
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Should Native American human remains and funerary objects be collected for scientific research or returned to tribes? Explain your answer.
6
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Why are language recovery and language reclamation important to maintain Indigenous cultures? Explain your answer using details from the text.
7
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Address Indian mascots or stereotypes you have encountered in your experience. In what ways might they be viewed as dishonoring Native peoples?
8
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What roles are tribal communities taking with regard to applied anthropology?