They brought new cultures and languages to this place which they called America. However, there were already people living here who had ther own cultures and languages, so a terrible part of history began. As more Europeans arrived, there was a fight with the Native Americans for the land and by the end of the nineteenth century, the native tribes were moved to reservations. A lot of their children were taken away to boarding schools and taught to speak English. By the end of the twentieth century, more than half of Native Americans were living in cities. They gave up speaking their old tribal language and only used English. As a result, many Native American languages disappeared, and with them, their culture. Some Native American languages are still used today, but they are usually spoken by the older members of the tribes who still live on the reservations. In North America, there are 150-170 languages that have at least one "last speaker, and many of these languages have under a hundred speakers