Indian reservations are areas of land given to Native American tribes by the United States government. In the 1850-60s the government decided to move Indians to land's that are no longer wanted by the settlers many of the tribes did not want to move to a new land and refused. Soon the government sent in the U.s. Army force, them to move to the new reservation lands. this caused many bloody wars between the Indians and the U.S. Army. Eventually, most Indians did move to the reservations. Today, reservations are run by their own tribal council, and less than half of Indians live on the reservations. Many of the Indians who live off the reservations live in large western cities like Phoenix and Los Angeles.