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In other words: Colonizers accidentally gave them a space to reconnect.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025

Colonizers may have been trying to adapt herds to tropical conditions in the Caribbean and Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, Delsol says.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 22, 2023

Colonizers also typically erected an infrastructure in the lands they controlled, building roads and railroads and establishing secure water systems and telegraph lines.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Colonizers brought these traditions to the Americas, where Native Americans had also been eating foraged mushrooms.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2021

I had rather not explain; but it wont make any difference to our Colonizers what sort of short-livers they come across.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard