Question

read the excerpt from \we are determined not to sell our lands.\ brother, we think it strange that you should jump over the lands of our brethren in the east to come to our council fire so far off to get our lands. when we sold our lands in the east to the white people, we determined never to sell those we kept, which are as small as we can comfortably live on. how does this excerpt support the idea that the tribes are determined not to sell their lands? by acknowledging that tribes have enough lands on which to live comfortably by emphasizing that the tribes already live on the smallest piece of land that can support them by emphasizing the fact that the us government came to offer a deal to the tribes by acknowledging the tribes in the east that the us government already passed over

Explanation:

The excerpt states that after selling eastern lands, the tribes kept only the smallest area they can comfortably live on, and vowed never to sell this remaining land. This directly ties to the idea that they are determined not to sell their lands by highlighting the land is the minimum they need to survive, so they will not part with it. The other options do not connect to their resolve to keep their remaining land: option A contradicts the text (the land is the smallest they can live on, not "enough" in a way that would support this; option C only notes the government's offer, not the tribes' determination; option D only mentions the skipped eastern tribes, not the resolve to keep land).

Answer:

B. by emphasizing that the tribes already live on the smallest piece of land that can support them