What happened to the native american populations of north and south america since the arrival of europeans?

Europeans triggered a wave of disease, warfare, and enslavement in the New World that had devastating effects for indigenous populations across the Americas.

the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to native american children on reservations. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the bureau of indian affairs (bia) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation carlisle indian industrial school.

(b) britain had a much larger navy than the u.s.

(d) the u.s. had a small army compared to britain.