Elena stepped back from the table, letting the full visual weight of the map sink in. "The story this map tells is that decolonization in America is not a closed chapter in a history book. It is an ongoing process of negotiation, healing, and remembering. The colonizers drew static lines to divide and conquer, but the people living on this land are using the map to show that those lines are not permanent."

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?"

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.