what was the goal of the treaty of laramie? how did it affect native americans?
By 1871, the federal government stopped signing treaties with Native Americans and replaced the treaty system with a law giving individual Indians ownership of land that had been tribal property.This Indian Homestead Act, official known as the Dawes Act, was a way for some Indians to become U.S. citizens. Assimilation had become the new ideal. 2  The goal was to absorb the tribes into the European-American culture and make Native people more like mainstream Americans. 3  Second, the House of Representatives was angry that they did not have a voice in these policies.