B | The arrival of white settlers
When the first white settlers arrived in the 1500s, about one million Native Americans lived north of Mexico. But the outsiders changed everything. Diseases from Europe such as smallpox and tuberculosis wiped out entire tribes. Settlers began to claim Indian lands for themselves. Some tribes resisted and fought back. Others attempted to cooperate. In the end the result was the same. In the late 1800s the US government forced the remaining Indians to leave their traditional homelands and live on tracks of land called “Reservations”. Over the next century native Americans continue to fight for their rights through political activism.  (…)

C | Today’s situation  
Today there are more than 550 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Native Americans are working to improve living conditions on the reservations, and to preserve their languages, religions and cultural identities.
(…). Other native American artists are reviving their tribes’ traditional artform – a movement which could help these unique cultures survive into the next century. 

Two years after the beginning of the Civil War, President and Commander in Chief of The Union [=The United-States] Abraham Lincoln, delivered his speech “The Emancipation Proclamation”. This speech is made up of two executive orders, one of which was first issued in 1862 and proclaimed the freeing of the slaves living in the States of The Confederacy.

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