Our Lands"
Brother, your application for the purchase of our lands
is to our minds very extraordinary. It has been made in
a crooked manner. You have not walked in the straight
path pointed out by the great Council of your nation.
You have no writings from your great Father, the
President. In making up our minds we have looked
back and remembered how the Yorkers purchased our
lands in former times. They bought them, piece after
piece, for a little money paid to a few men in our nation,
and not to all our brethren, until our planting and
hunting-grounds have become very small-and if we
sell them, we know not where to spread our blankets
Which is the central idea of this excerpt?
A. Tribes have too little land left to live on.
B. White settlers have not dealt honorably with
Indigenous tribes.
C. The US government did not keep accurate records
of land sales.
D. Money for the land sold went to only some of the
tribes.
1 answer
The central idea of the excerpt is:
B. White settlers have not dealt honorably with Indigenous tribes.
The excerpt discusses the extraordinary manner in which the land purchase application was made and references the past experiences of Indigenous tribes with land sales to white settlers, highlighting their concern about being cheated and losing their lands.
