What’s interesting to me in looking—I like history a lot, and looking at old historical documents—is to see that in the 1840s there was still a significant number, not the majority or anywhere near the majority, but there were a significant number of people in this country that were still questioning whether Indians were human, or whether Indians had souls, when we and many other people like our tribe had been running our own governments for a long, long time.

Which sentence best integrates a direct quotation from the excerpt?

A) Mankiller finds it interesting that, in “old historical documents” from the 1840s, there were a significant number of people who wondered if Indians were human.

B) In describing the discrimination of the past, Mankiller points out the ignorance of the “majority” of people from the 1800s who questioned whether Indians were human or had souls.

C) Mankiller describes how, in the mid-1800s, many people did not know that “we and many other people like our tribe had been running our own governments for a long, long time.”

D) To emphasize the discrimination the Cherokee faced in the 1840s, Mankiller states that “there were a significant number of people in this country that were still questioning whether Indians were human.”