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From The Earth is Precious, what is the best definition for the word “exempt”?

a) none of these are correct

b) a restraint forcing one to stay in place

c) a strategy to leave a place or location

d) free or excepted from something expected of others

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The correct answer would be D. Free or excepted from something expected of others.


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Answer:

d) free or excepted from something expected of others

Step-by-step explanation:

In Chief Seattle's environmental speech about the American government's attempts to buy their land, he emphasized the importance of the sanctity of their land. He reiterates that to 'the red man', the earth and everything in it are all related to them, be it a brother or a mother or anything. Even the air and the wind are precious to them, which the white men have no regard for. The ground is sacred for it holds the ashes of their forefathers. By pointing out that "Even the white man, whose God walks and talks with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny", he shows the sameness of everyone, be it them or the white men, for even the white man is not exempted or free from the common fate of all, that is death. So, what is expected of them (the Red Indians) will also one day happen to the white men too.

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