What was the purpose of reservations?
To make it easier to give American Indians
food
To separate warring American Indian tribes
To open land in the Great Plains for white
settlers

To open land in the great plains for white settlers

Explanation:

Native Americans were confined to reservations to open up land for white settlers. ... The Dawes Act of 1887 destroyed the reservation system by subdividing tribal lands ... European settlers used a variety of methods to wrest land away from native

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