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Return to Home The Europeans colonosation of America almost obliterated Native American culture. Duing the 16th century to the 19th century their population was disturbed by great conflicts between the European explorers and the colonists. Many Native tribes were ravaged by the European's. There was a large number of disease, displacement, enslavement,internalwarfare and intermarriage. Scholors today believe that the epidemic desease is the main factor for decline of the population.

The first encounter of Native Americans was in 1492 by Christopher Columbus. The tribe was called the Island Arawaks. It was said that of the 250,000 to 1 million island Arawaks, only about 500,000 Arawaks survived by the year 1550, after that, it was considered that the population were extinct before 1650. During the sixteenth century, spaniards and other Europeans brought horses to the Americas.

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