The short answer is that he subscribed to the notion (popular at the time) of paternalistic treatment ─ that Native Americans were primitive children that needed to be protected from the modern world and civilization until they themselves became civilized.

/u/Reedstilt had a really good summation in this thread, and I suggest you read it.

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