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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

Still, to some in Burkina Faso’s military, Damiba was seen as too cozy with former colonizer France, which maintains a military presence in Africa’s Sahel region to help countries fight Islamic extremists.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

It was founded by controversial saint Junípero Serra, viewed by some as a colonizer and others as a protector of Indigenous peoples.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 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

We started our hike by heading to the Oak of the Golden Dream, where gold was first discovered by colonizers in 1842.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

The soldiers and colonizers are confined to bland, calorie-specific rations.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025

The colonizers also stole farmland that was already cultivated.

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