settlers
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As settlers — first Spanish missionaries and later Californians — spread out more and more, the tribe was rendered landless by 1900.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
As for curbing the violence of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, it might have a little bit of impact.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026
Spenser arrived in Ireland in 1580, during the brutal suppression of the Second Desmond Rebellion, and became a beneficiary of the plantations, through which confiscated Irish lands were granted to English settlers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Palestinians had approached the settlers with their hands behind their backs to make plain they posed no threat.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
In 1775 the Mohawk Nation allied with the British against the separatist settlers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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