Question

Philip Johnston demonstrated this group’s importance at Camp Elliot, allowing for the recruitment of the “First 29” during World War II. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this group that sent encrypted “Arizona” and “New Mexico” messages using their Native American tongue.
ANSWER: Navajo code talkers [or Diné code talkers; prompt on Navajo or Diné]
[10h] Many Navajos who tried to enlist in the military were dismissed due to high rates of illiteracy – a phenomenon foreshadowed in this 1928 study that deemed Indian residential schools “grossly inadequate.”
ANSWER: Meriam Report [or The Problem of Indian Administration]
[10m] Oppressive Native American policy was ameliorated by a 1934 “Indian New Deal” named for Burton K. Wheeler and a politician with this surname. A historian with this [emphasize] first name narrated The People Speak, a documentary based on his 1980 survey history of America from the “bottom-up.”
ANSWER: Howard [accept Howard Zinn; accept Wheeler–Howard Act; accept Edgar Howard] (He wrote A People’s History of the United States.)

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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Chicago BIowa State A1001020
Claremont ANorthwestern A1001020
Cornell AImperial A10101030
Cornell BStanford A100010
Duke AMichigan A10101030
Florida BPenn State A100010
Illinois AGeorgia Tech A001010
Indiana AToronto A1001020
MIT AChicago C100010
Minnesota AChicago A1001020
NYU AGeorgia Tech B100010
Ohio State ATexas A100010
Purdue AColumbia B1001020
Rutgers AHarvard A100010
Rutgers BWUSTL B100010
South Carolina AFlorida A1001020
UC Berkeley BMcGill A100010
Vanderbilt AHouston A100010
Virginia AJohns Hopkins A1001020
Yale BWUSTL A1001020