Which sentence from the excerpt best supports the idea that the author experienced
criticism from her peers?
"That day I wondered, what was so special about me that the adults would want to hand me what
amounted to a sack filled with money?"
"The first thing I learned in college was that white boys don't care if you're legitimately Indian if they
think you robbed them of $100,000 in scholarship money that they'd earned holding a tuba for
countless hours on a high-school football field.”
"The master's program offered me no teaching assistantship, and I told the program director I
couldn't sign on unless the price tag was slashed."
O "...two weeks later, I received a thin letter thick with the promise of more money than I could
imagine: four years of tuition, room, board, and books."