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Outwardly, the purpose of the reservations were to give the Indian their own lands.

However, the real reasons were much more insidious. It was a place to contain the Indian in conditions mostly unbearable. It was designed to "break" the Indian spirit which is the one thing the white man could not do.

Also it was mostly designed to eradicate the Indian. Mountain Indians were given reservations in the swamp. Forest Indiand got land in the deserts. And tribes who had long histories of being enemies got lands that bordered one another in hopes of them killing each other off.

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An area of land managed by Native Americans tribes under the U.S. Bureau of Indian affairs is called a reservation. 310 reservations exist in the U.S.A.

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