Which sentence from the section "European Settlers Destroyed Crops, Seeds" BEST develops a central idea of the article? Group of answer choices

An estimated 15,000 Indigenous people from various nations died of disease and other causes during these forced marches.

Many elderly seed keepers fell ill and put their precious seed bundles in trees "because there wasn't anybody left that knew how to take care of them," Echo-Hawk said.

In the northeast, the French Marquis de Denoville destroyed the corn crops of the Haudenosaunees in 1678.

Indigenous communities not only were forcefully separated from their land, but from many of their seeds, said Deb Echo-Hawk, a Pawnee seed keeper in Oklahoma.