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 Indian's to land that they are unwanted by settlers. Many of the tribes did not want to move to new lands and refused. Soon the government sent in the U.S. Army to 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 on the reservations live in large Western cities, like Phoenix and Los Angeles.