colonizer
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Other tracks like “Plantación Adentro,” detailed the story of Camilo Manrique, a fictionalized enslaved character who died at the hands of a Spanish colonizer in 1745.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
If Greenland was to break from its Danish colonizer, it would become, five centuries after Columbus, the only independent nation in the Western Hemisphere whose governing language remained that of its pre-European ancestors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
President Idriss Déby, who was fatally wounded on the battlefield in 2021, tamped down multiple rebellions during his 30-year reign, sometimes with the support of Chad’s former colonizer, France.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
Still, to some in Burkina Faso’s military, Damiba was seen as too cozy with former colonizer France, which maintains a military presence in Africa’s Sahel region to help countries fight Islamic extremists.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
There will always be, in emerging nations, an enduring attraction to the ways of the colonizer — I myself was not immune to it.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Early Portuguese colonizers described those forests as forming a dense tangle, or "maranhão."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ninety-nine years later, the country expelled the last of its colonizers, but by then the country was thoroughly hooked on cà phê.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Mexican identity is often described in terms of mestizaje, which Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos described as a virtuous “blending” of races, including Mexico’s Indigenous peoples and European colonizers.
From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025
The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025
The first British colonial militias fought Indigenous people and French and Spanish colonizers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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