Beside her sat Mateo, a college student preparing for a presentation on indigenous sovereignty. He looked at the map, tracing his finger over the vibrant gradients of color that seemed to bleed across the continents of North and South America. "Where do we even begin with a story this big?" Mateo asked, overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the visual data.
Mateo nodded, recognizing the names from his textbooks. "So that's the end of the story? The European powers leave, new flags go up, and the map is finished?"
Mateo smiled, finally seeing the narrative thread connecting the centuries. He opened his notebook and began to write. "Decolonization," he muttered to himself as his pen hit the paper, "is not a destination on a map. It is the journey of redrawing it."