Indian appropriations act of 1851 (reservation system)
An Indian reservation is land reserved for and managed by a Native American tribe, its sovereignty limited by federal and state or local law. Today, there are roughly 300 reservations in the United States. But how and why did Indian reservations come to be?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2015/5/25/how-american-indian-reservations-came-be
1851 Indian Appropriations Act provides funds to move western tribes onto reservations (summary of the act)https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/events/1851-indian-appropriations-act-provides-funds-to-move-western-tribes-onto-reservations/