Sounds like a pretty good plan to me, even today. It sure would be nice if the natives could live together with us, just as a hundred other ethnicities have come to do, instead of wasting their lives without purpose out in the boonies doing nothing but getting drunk and fighting.
It's too bad there's a perception they are mostly like that while nothing could be further from the truth.
Read up on Clarence Louie! And there's many more like him right in the area where I live!