Five hundred years ago, Europeans arrived at a new continent. They 13_______ new cultures and languages to America. However, there were 14_______ people living there who had their own cultures and languages. And so terrible part of history began.

As more Europeans arrived, there was a fight for the land with the native American Indians. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Indian tribes were 15_______ to reservations. By the end of the twentieth century more than half of the Native Americans in the US 16_______ in cities. They gave up speaking their old tribal language and only used English. As a result, many Native American languages 17_______ and with them their culture.

Some American Indian languages are 18______ used today but they are usually spoken by the older members of the tribes who still live on the reservations.