How could indian agents profit their assignments?

The Indian agents got profits since some of the functions they had were key, supervising commercial negotiation between white and native American merchants in some cases, giving them the authority to grant and revoke marketing licenses if they wanted, allowing the Indian agents to conspire with the settlers trying to steal Indian lands.

the right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful.  " the  participant in european imperialism is being described below is that  their policy of "divide and rule" pitted political groups against each other to keep any one group from becoming too powerful. 

it may be touching on the issue of over sexualizing all women