aTokenYeti on 22 January 2022
Yes indeed. In fact you will find that indigenous Americans make up much, much larger portions of the population in central and South America than here in North America. In Bolivia they actually make up a majority of the population, and Evo Morales was the first indigenous leader of an American nation.
There are a variety of historical reasons for this, but broadly speaking the Catholic European colonial powers (Spain, Portugal, France) were more interested in converting the indigenous populations to Christianity, while the Protestant colonial powers (England, Netherlands) were more interested in land acquisition, settlement, and extraction.
