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This article states that the Native Americans lived on the American shore for more than 15 000 years and yet they have been slaved, sold, and murdered by Christopher Columbus that claims that he “discovered” that land. It also states that John Cabot discovered the coast of North America in 1497, under the commission of Henry VII of England which is claimed to be the first European exploration of the mainland of North
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