What is the topic of "Alone on the Hilltop"

This essay was about a boy in an Indian tribe experiencing an important rite of passage. He is taken to a hilltop and for four days he is left alone with nothing but special tokens that his family has given to him. During these four days he is to have a vision (which he does) and this will decide if he is to become a medicine man.

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its hard for me to see which word is supposed to be in bold. if i knew then i would be able to better.

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.