Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Their emphasis on indigeneity was new, a very post–Cold War phenomenon, but in some ways, the list of indigenous grievances was five hundred years old. In 1992, the five-hundredth anniversary of Columbus’s first voyage became the specific occasion of indigenous meetings and declarations. Understandably, the mood was one of mourning rather than happy commemoration. At an international meeting in La Paz, Bolivia, representatives of widely scattered indigenous peoples-- Maya, Ñañú-Otomí, Kuna, Cherokee, Quechua, Tarahumara, Aymara, Guaymí, and Nahua, among others--declared, on the subject of the glorious Discovery of America: 'Our wise men were persecuted, tortured, massacred. Our sacred books and symbols were destroyed. Our gold and silver, stolen. Our territory, usurped.'" [Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, 4th Ed., p. 342]