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? mankiller states that in the cherokee nation, \the leadership existed,\ even though the leadership may not have looked like leadership that people see in 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.\

Explanation:

The first option integrates the direct - quote "the leadership existed" smoothly within the sentence, providing context about the Cherokee Nation's leadership. The second option misattributes the quote as it is not a direct quote from the text to say "who people go to when there's a time of crisis" in that exact phrasing.

Answer:

Mankiller states that in the Cherokee Nation, "the leadership existed," even though the leadership may not have looked like leadership that people see in the external world.