“As the Native American or Indigenous peoples of the Americas became colonized and controlled by Europe, they began to lose their culture and identity.
“As the Native American or Indigenous peoples of the Americas became colonized and controlled by Europe, they began to lose their culture and identity. Europe established methods to ‘recivilize’ those that were not, which led to the oppression of the Indigenous tribes in the New World. Now, Indigenous culture and language have been lost because of the suppression they have faced by colonization,” said Chen.