It killed a lot of them. Diseases that were introduced by European settlers, either accidentally or on purpose were ones that their immune systems had little defense against, so many suffered and died as a result.
The Europeans started to use the Native Americans as slaves.
I can not think of any positive effects for the Native Americans. Their land was taken, they were killed, they died of disease, and they were treated as second class citizens.
the effects arre the native americans are dieing
He was the first European to encounter the Native Americans of the Bahamas and brought with him disease, death, discrimination, and invasion.
the long term effects on columbus's "discovery" of the native american people were that he killed most of them and there is not that many or at all, alive. he wiped them out with all his soldiers and disease.
smallpox
smallpox
the exploration effected the native Americans like they did with the africans. this was a very big change at the time.
smallpox
Mostly smallpox
Disease
One result of the loss of Native American lives to disease is that the Native Americans moved farther away from the Europeans. Another result of disease among the Native Americans was their lack of people to fight the Europeans for land.