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Research Paper About Christopher Columbus

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Do you now who Christopher Columbus is, do you now the real story about Christopher Columbus? Native American only make up 1% of the population today. Native American have 566 tribe to this date. Native American have had struggles through the years. In the article,” A Brief History of racism in the US” the author start that they was struggle for the native people from went the US got “discovered”. One thing that Christopher Columbus did way in made the Native people slaves and made them mine for gold and may some go with him back to Spain to serve the king and queen as slaves.On the journey Christopher Columbus in prison 11000 men, women and children. He 500 native people to Spain but only 300 people made it. The slaves who were forced to search

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