vanquisher

The show means to look at how Indigenous people absorbed aspects of their vanquishers’ worldview into their own.

Everywhere I went in the history and in the archeology, I found that shells were great fact-checkers, because they tell a story more accurately than the vanquishers who tend to write history.

We emphasized what a vanquishable opponent Hillary Clinton was because that diminished the significance of the vanquishing and the vanquisher.

In his day, Winfield Scott was praised by no less an authority than the Duke of Wellington, vanquisher of Napoleon at Waterloo, as “the greatest living soldier.”

In sports, a vanquished people have been made promotional symbols for the aspirational ferocity of their vanquishers — on helmets, jerseys and souvenirs, from “menace” to “merch.”