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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

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

He envisioned how emblematic a victory of the former colony over its former colonizer would be.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

For Meztli Projects, the day wasn’t just about the colonizer coming down; it was about creating a space for Native and Indigenous community members to come together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 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

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

The Spanish colonizers suppressed this intentional annual brush burning, claiming it was incompatible with agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2025

“The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls,” the authors conclude.

From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2024

Those Indigenous peoples and their descendants resisted invasion of their homelands and centuries of destruction and exploitation by the colonizers.

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