 However, the effort grew quickly to represent all U.S. Catholic dioceses with claims related to past mission work among Native Americans.Late in the following year, Archbishop Bayley appointed General Charles Ewing as Catholic Commissioner of Indian Missions to represent the dioceses, which was an appointment Brouillet and the Northwest bishops had requested nine years earlier.Prominent among the Catholic claims were the allotment of only seven Indian reservations under the "Peace Policy" of President Ulysses S. Grant.