Answer:This quotation comes from the Introduction of The Way to Rainy Mountain. Here, we are introduced not only to the author’s grandmother, Aho, but also to her native people, the Kiowa. The text describes the tribal migration from Montana to Oklahoma as the Kiowa moved southeast across the Plains. Along the way, they acquired a new culture and a new religion.
Since they were heading east, theirs was a literal and geographic
Matchlocks were primed, cartridges rammed home, and swords loosened in their sheaths. Was it the Tuaregs again across our path? But Mohammed, the keen-eyed, shouted joyfully— “The oasis, the oasis! I see the palm-trees.”
this would be the answer because of the way that they are over joyed when they find the Oasis.
A because your heart doesn’t actually sink, it’s an expression of dread. :)
