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Native American Genocide
The first Indigenous people of North America have been the victims of genocide by the United States for hundreds of years. The devastation that has been brought upon the first Americans has caused them to develop severe health issues. It all started when the Europeans demanded that the Native people that they came into contact with converted to Catholicism, and show them where the gold was, or else they would be killed. The oppression and slaughter of the Native Americans long continued after Christopher Columbus came into contact with Native Indians in the Caribbean. The colonist tried to take control of land that they thought they were entitled to, and in doing so, they killed thousands of people, and disheartened a society. After the colonist
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