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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

As Brigham Young, the Mormon colonizer, said, “This is the place.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Rajoelina said he took up dual citizenship to secure his children’s education in former colonizer France.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

“They basically just act as the first pioneer or colonizer species that are able to get a hold on a devastated kind of landscape and start to bring some life back to it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2023

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

Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

The colonizers, four Chagossians aged 31 to 72, clambered aboard a dinghy and came ashore, waving British and American flags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

But as human activities damage habitats and reduce biodiversity across regions, the number of possible colonizers falls.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026

The soldiers and colonizers are confined to bland, calorie-specific rations.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

When the English began to invade their homelands, Indigenous peoples brought their ways of diplomacy to their interactions with the colonizers.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz