settlers

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Mohammed Asasa had only just returned home after burying his 80-year-old father Hussein when several children ran into the house shouting, "the settlers are digging up the grave!"

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Historians estimate that before the arrival of large numbers of European settlers, roughly 50,000 grizzlies ranged across the American West.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

As Ms. Fridland explains, “most other settlers, whose ‘r’ arrived with them, kept their ‘r’s and passed them down to their descendants.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

D’Entremont said Carney started the hourlong conversation talking about efforts to encourage the celebration of National Acadian Day, which is meant to commemorate the French settlers in Atlantic Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The use of forced slave labor by Europeans began almost as soon as the first Spanish settlers arrived in the New World.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis