colonist
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However, the researchers report their work revealed the "richness, abundance and composition" of the bee populations were "signficantly impacted by agricultural colonization after as little as 10-17 years of settlement by colonist farmers and ranchers."
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
Pocahontas died several years later in March 1617 in Gravesend, England, while colonist John Rolfe died around March 1622, he added.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023
It stands on the site where Samuel de Champlain, the French colonist and navigator who founded Quebec and New France, built a chapel in 1633.
From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2022
And he appeared as a near-future version of himself in a third filmed piece, “The Astronaut,” which had Pete Davidson as fatally chill Mars colonist Chad.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2021
In the Disney version, Smith returns to England after a bad colonist shoots him in the shoulder.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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