Christopher Columbus was a 15th and 16th century explorer credited for connecting the Old ... European powers, the colonization of the New World led to the exploitation of its indigenous peoples ...

The Indigenous sages carried out an ancestral ceremony of the Anasazi people, who lived in the Chaco Canyon before European settlement ... the planet," the 37-year-old Noke Koi leader said.

Prior to Columbus's arrival in the Americas in 1492, the area boasted thriving indigenous populations ... that about 60.5 million people lived in the Americas prior to European contact.