During the course of the nineteenth century they had been deprived of much of. This helps to explain why the relationship between the federal government was so bad.
Between 1887 and 1933, US government policy aimed to assimilate Indians into mainstream American society. ... Federal policy was enshrined in the General Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887 which decreed that Indian Reservation land was to be divided into plots and allocated to individual Native Americans.
