Which TWO of the following best identify the central idea of the text? PART A. The U. S. government was justified to treat the Indians harshly because they lost the American Indian Wars.
PART B. The U. S. government put the needs of American settlers and homesteaders over the treaty-protected rights of American Indians to their land.
C. The U. S. government did the best possible by taking land from a few Indians to give to many settlers, minimizing violence for both sides.
D. The Indians who did not resist American advancement and retreated to reservations were treated better than those who fought and eventually surrendered to the U. S. government.
E. The Seventh Cavalry got revenge for the Battle of the Little Bighorn at the massacre of Wounded Knee.
F. Life was difficult for Indians on reservations because they could not practice their ancestral ways of living nor adapt to new ways without proper resources and guidance

PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answers to Part A?A.“Crazy Horse had surrendered, but Sitting Bull and a small band of warriors escaped to Canada. Eventually, in 1881, they returned to the United States and surrendered due to hunger.” (Paragraph 8)
B.“The Sioux and other Plains tribes lost their chief means of subsistence and mourned the loss of the animal, which was revered as sacred according to many tribal religions.” (Paragraph 15)
C.“Previously dubbed "Indian Territory " by the federal government, Oklahoma had been used as a state-sized reservation of many tribes around the country, ranging from the Nez Percé of Idaho to the Cherokee of Georgia.” (Paragraph20)
D.“So, in 1889, the United States Government decided to break Oklahoma up from one reservation into many, with all the land left unassigned to a tribe up for grabs. Two million acres of Indian land would be available to homesteaders.”(Paragraph 21)
E.“Nomadic tribes that followed animal migrations lost their entire means of subsistence by being constricted to a defined area. Farmers found themselves with land unsuitable for agriculture.” (Paragraph 24)
F.“Like the armed warriors before them, these peaceful natives would be swept up in a violent end at the hands of the U. S. government: the 1890 Massacre of Wounded Knee.” (Paragraph 30)