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

Ford’s arrival in 1907 drew waves of German, Irish and Jewish settlers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 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

He added that settlers were often also soldiers.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Ignoring Sevier’s wishes, in 1785 the Cherokee and the US negotiated the Hopewell Treaty, which was supposed to keep non-Indigenous settlers east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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