On February 8, 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act as a solution to the "Indian Problem." Congress saw this conflict similar to Americans Richard H. Pratt and Carl Schurz, who noticed the Westward Expansion campaign had become an invasion for Native Americans. Both men believed the Natives must integrate into western society, that they must "individualize them in the possession and appreciation of property," Schurz claimed. Mr. Pratt had seen the harsh conditions of Native reservations himself and concluded they were in desperate need of education. Together with other Indian reformers, Pratt pushed Congress to feed Great Plains Native Americans into American Indian schools, where they would "kill the Indian, save the man." The first boarding
