settlers
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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
After the war ended in 1783, American settlers resisted oversight by both the Confederation and, after 1789, the Constitutional government under President Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The Mayor of al-Mughayyir, Amin Abu Alia, told the BBC that around 10 settlers approached the village along with soldiers and started shooting towards a school.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Chief Opechancanough did mount one more large attack on the settlers, in 1644, but by then the European population had grown and the Indian population had been decimated.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
