Question

read the excerpt from \we are determined not to sell our lands.\
brother, the white people buy and sell false rights to our lands, and your employers have, you say, paid a great price for their rights. they must have plenty of money to spend it in buying false rights to lands belonging to indians. the loss of it will not hurt them, but our lands are of great value to us, and we wish you to go back with our talk to your employers and tell them and the yorkers that they have no right to buy and sell false rights to our lands.
which best describes the central idea of this excerpt?
○ buying land from indigenous people is expensive for yorkers.
○ yorkers have no right to sell the lands held by indigenous people.
○ land is more important to indigenous people than yorkers.
○ yorkers are determined to buy lands from indigenous people.

Explanation:

The excerpt states that white Yorkers are buying/selling false rights to Indigenous lands, and the Indigenous speaker asserts they have no right to do this, demanding the listener relay that message. The other options are incorrect: the text does not focus on cost, land value comparison, or Yorkers' determination to buy, but rather the lack of right to trade the lands.

Answer:

B. Yorkers have no right to sell the lands held by Indigenous people.