Still, a few lineages, families, and tribes did survive to the present, but like many other Indians in the State, missionized Indians faced problems associated with extreme poverty—poor health care, substandard education, and unemployment—which continues to this day.”
Some of the negative effects of the Age of Exploration were the huge death tolls suffered by Native American populations as a result of wars and transplanted European diseases, the destruction of pre-existing New World civilizations and the establishment of the Atlantic Slave Trade.