Seriously though Grant is a second Andrew Jackson. Itās extremely evil of him to move people out of their native lands just to prop up one native state no one asked for. Theyāre not even given a second state. They also are asked for neighbors on both sides they donāt want. I donāt know this timeline has gotten extremely dark. Even William T Sherman wanted to stop abuses against them on the reservations. Now Adolf Grant broke whatever last treaties that have been signed. The natives have no reason to work with the government.
ITL, itās been an RNC plan to do this for over a decade, ever since the Sequoya plan went into action. It also is massively supported among the non native people of the plains.
Many of those āTreatiesā from our timeline are even more watered down, some are simple white peaceās. Republican presidents tried to simply hold natives in place and give themselves legal outs in the treaty āto move them wherever at an undisclosed dateā. The Indian wars in many ways were worse.
Sheridan wanted to do this back at the beginning of the 80s but ironically the Liberals were against it. (They still are) though their reasons are less humanitarian and more economical and practical. (Populists, radicals and progressives are some of the only people making the humanitarian argument).
Either way Grant is certainly not off the hook. He couldāve gone the Garfield path and opted to postpone the plan until it became irrelevant but he unfortunately did not.