Indigenous Americans demand a reckoning with brutal colonial history

From Canada to Colombia, protests erupt against legacies of violence, exploitation and cultural erasure

As statues of queens and conquistadors are tumbled amid protests across North and South America, Indigenous people are pushing for a region-wide reckoning with colonialism's bitter legacy of massacre and cultural erasure.

From the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, Indigenous Americans have taken aim at the Catholic Church, national governments and other powerful institutions.