Based on these excerpts both the Haida and Maori believe that children are

they believe that the children are very clever and that they are more clever than their parents.

Explanation:

haida and maori believe that the children are very clever and that they are more clever than their parents

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quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.