1. The document provides policy options for addressing relations between Native Americans and white settlers in 1886, including no regulation, returning Native Americans to their homelands, continuing the reservation system, pursuing assimilation, or annihilation. 2. It discusses key events that impacted Native Americans such as the Homestead Act of 1862, the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, and the killing of Crazy Horse in 1877. 3. The Dawes Act of 1887 codified allotting tribal lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation and the destruction of tribal relations, despite negative impacts such as loss of land.