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gracezz

Maps made by non-Native Americans to depict Native American land tenure, resources, and population distributions appeared almost as early as Europeans' first encounters with Native Americans and took many forms:missionaries' field sketches, explorers' drawings, and surveyors' maps, as well as maps rendered in connection with treaties involving land transfers. Most existing maps of Native American lands are reconstructions that are based largely on archaeology, oral reports, and evidence gathered from observers' accounts in letters, diaries, and official reports; accordingly, the accuracy of these maps is especially dependent on the mapmakers' own interpretive abilities.



Many existing maps also reflect the 150-year role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in administering tribal lands. Though these maps incorporate some information gleaned directly from Native Americans, rarely has Native American cartography contributed to this official record, which has been compiled, surveyed, and authenticated by non-Native Americans.Thus our current cartographic record relating to Native American tribes and their migrations and cultural features, as well as territoriality and contemporary trust lands, reflects the origins of the data, the mixed purposes for which the maps have been prepared, and changes both in United States government policy and in non-Native Americans' attitudes toward an understanding of Native Americans.



Question #45.553-01(23402-!-item-!-188;#058&000553-01)



The passage mentions each of the following as a factor affecting current maps of Native American lands EXCEPT



(A) United States government policy

(B) non-Native Americans' perspectives on Native Americans

(C) origins of the information utilized to produce the maps

(D) changes in the ways that tribal lands are used

(E) the reasons for producing the maps

我想问一下第一题是怎么做的？答案是E
是因为文章没有提到producing地图的原因吗？这题也太隐晦了。。。。

cleoguo

答案是D。。。。。。

alpaca

有reasons啊。就是the mixed purposes for which the maps have been prepared，在最后一句话里