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Other tracks like “Plantación Adentro,” detailed the story of Camilo Manrique, a fictionalized enslaved character who died at the hands of a Spanish colonizer in 1745.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

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

One casualty, however, may be the country’s relationship with France, its longtime colonizer, with which a rapprochement has just begun after decades of animosity over their troubled past.

From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

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

When European colonizers came to New Zealand in the 1800s, it changed the indigenous food.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 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

Though colonizers tried to erase their traditions through forced conversion to Catholicism, enslaved Africans found ways to adapt and protect their spiritual practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025

What do you imagine North America looked like when colonizers first came from Europe?

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