Our Lands."
Brother, you want us to travel with you and look for new
lands. If we should sell our lands and move off into a
distant country towards the setting sun, we should be
looked upon in the country to which we go as
foreigners and strangers. We should be despised by
the red as well as the white men, and we should soon
be surrounded by the white people, who will there also
kill our game and come upon our lands and try to get
them from us.
Which is the central idea of this excerpt?
A. Moving west will cause similar problems.
B. Settlers will compete with Indigenous people for
game.
C. The west is full of foreigners.
D. The US government wants the tribes to move farther
west.
1 answer
The central idea of the excerpt is:
A. Moving west will cause similar problems.
The speaker expresses concerns that moving to new lands would not eliminate issues faced by Indigenous people, and that they would continue to be surrounded by settlers who would compete for resources and land.
