settlers

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Mohammed Asasa had only just returned home after burying his 80-year-old father Hussein when several children ran into the house shouting, "the settlers are digging up the grave!"

From BBC • May 10, 2026

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 says we’ll also look for survivors from the Roanoke colony, the settlers who went to Virginia with Sir Walter Raleigh over twenty years ago.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone