Why did the Creek tribe offer to sell its part of the Unassigned Lands? A. The tribe felt that the money would help improve the tribe’s living conditions. B. The tribe believed that settlers were bound to occupy those lands eventually. C. The tribe was under debt due to unpaid taxes on its lands. D. The tribe needed the money to build new schools and courthouses. E. The tribe felt that the new settlers would help to improve the tribe’s economy.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is