The right answer is "fuels the external conflict.
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Explanation: The text clearly does not create a mood or develop a character. Nor does it create an internal conflict because an inner conflict is one that has a kind of inner quarrel that the characters interlock between their innermost reasons and emotions and trigger bad feelings.
Thus, the text feeds external conflict. An external conflict occurs when a character must overcome a challenge with another character, the forces of nature, technology or society. In this case the external conflict is presented when the Indians were removed from their lands, against their will, by the non-indigenous society, showing of this conflict a challenge between characters and society.
King begins his nobel prize acceptance speech with examples of recent racial violence in the US in lrder to show that the fight for freedom from oppression is not over.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
