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Grant's Peace Policy, or the "Quaker Plan."

1868

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The Peace Policy seeks to solidify reservation boundaries and "discipline" Native populations. It declares that the U.S. government will remain at peace with all tribes that stay within their reservation boundaries, but will go to war with any tribes "transgressing" those boundaries.

In a move to end the corruption within the Office of Indian Affairs, where white staff routinely steal money and food that is supposed to meet treaty obligations, the "Quaker" part of the plan shifts the management of the dispersal of goods to "nonpartisan" bodies, which become, in most cases, religious organizations. This, in turn, sets the stage for the Christian "management" of boarding schools.