When the Dawes Act, a Native American policy, was implemented in 1887, it focused on dissolving reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans. At that time, people believed that if a person adopted the clothing and methods of the white man and was in charge of his own farm, he would eventually abandon his "Indian character", as the Oxford University Press put it, and assimilate into American society. . The basic idea of ​​this act was the suppression of Native American culture because it was considered savage and primitive by the new settlers. Many historians now agree that the treatment of native people throughout the Dawes Act was completely unjust, illegal and unethical. American society classified them as savages solely based on their differences in morality, religion, appearance, and overall culture. First, the U.S. government issued reservations to separate American settlers and Native Americans in an effort to acquire more land from the Indians and hopefully end the conflict. Unfortunately for the Native Americans, by the late 1800s, settlers had become settlers. The government's goal was to Americanize them into society. America relies on immigrants from all over the world. Each of them brought their own customs, cultures and values ​​and integrated them into society. However, Native Americans were known as savages because the government viewed them as uncivilized and uncontrollable. Although the United States claims it is a free country and states in the First Amendment that you can believe in any religion without persecution, it has not given native people this right. Instead, the government tried to convert the Native Americans' religion to Catholicism or baptize them, completely forgetting that many people had come to America to escape religious persecution. The government was trying to assimilate the natives by taking away their religion and their