settlers
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The settlers were from a recently reestablished settlement called Sa-Nur, situated on top of the hill above the cemetery.
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
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
D’Entremont said Carney started the hourlong conversation talking about efforts to encourage the celebration of National Acadian Day, which is meant to commemorate the French settlers in Atlantic Canada.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
In 1870, the Osage—expelled from their lodges, their graves plundered—agreed to sell their Kansas lands to settlers for $1.25 an acre.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
