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

Sixteen years later, however, the Indigenous villages had recovered and were a barrier to the settlers moving into the Colony of Connecticut, which was in Pequot territory.

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