Question

read the excerpt from
ebuilding the cherokee nation.\ another thing that i saw was great leadership in our communities, and leadership again, its kind of like the way i talked about looking at government. our government may have not looked like the us government, but its a government and the leadership we saw in our communities may not have looked like leadership that you see in the external world, but the leadership existed. you could find the leadership just by seeing who people go to when theres a time of crisis in the community. which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt? in mankillers view, the leaders of the cherokee nation do not look like the leaders from \the us government or the external world.\ unlike the leaders of the us government, the cherokee leaders are the ones \who people go to when theres a time of crisis.\ mankiller states that in the cherokee nation, \the leadership existed\ even though the leadership may not have looked like. mankiller explains that cherokee leadership looked different from other governments because you could find the leadership just by seeing

Explanation:

The second option directly quotes "who people go to when there's a time of crisis" from the excerpt while integrating it into a statement about Cherokee leaders. The other options either paraphrase or do not quote as effectively.

Answer:

Unlike the leaders of the US government, the Cherokee leaders are the ones "who people go to when there's a time of crisis."