Plains Indians
The U.S. government violated its original treaties of recognizing independent Indian territory and began the concentration policy and the reservation policy. The policies were created to avoid conflicts between the natives and the whites because random attacks on the white travelers were very common, yet the main reason was to obtain the Native's fertile soil and land for farming and deposits of gold out West. |
The goal of the concentration policy was to separate Native Americans from the whites to prevent wars and allow coexistence, but the settlers were not satisfied with this policy; thence, it did not work successfully. The reservation policy was established by the Indian Peace Commission in 1867 and the final report came in 1868. The Indian Peace Commission decided that it was best to remove hostile tribes and more reservations away from the trail of the westward expansions to stop the revolts and protect the white settlers, which it worked.
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