Answer:
During the late 1860s the U.S. government decided to put western Indian tribes on sections of land called Indian Reservations.
Step-by-step explanation:
The United States' policy of creating reserves for America's indigenous people was established by the Ulysses S. Grant administration in the late 1860s as a response to the native's ongoing conflicts with settlers. The relationship between the settlers and the Indians had become very poor after the settlers settled on the tribes' hunting fields and took over the resources they had previously used.
Grant followed an alleged "peace policy" as a possible solution to the conflict. It included, among other things, a relocation of the tribes from their native territories to areas specially created for them to settle on. This also meant a replacement of the tribes' internal government representatives to religious men who would be responsible for overseeing the reserves and for spreading the Christian message. The Quakers were especially involved in this policy.
Since the tribes were no longer allowed to hunt as they had previously done, they had to be trained in basic farming in order to better feed on their new land. In many cases, however, the lands were not suitable for cultivation, as many of the tribes that started farming lived on the brink of hunger.
The hunger problem sometimes caused the federal government to give a tribe a certain amount of resources. The distribution of these resources was often very uneven, and in many cases the goods were not delivered.