white settler

British  

noun

1. a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants

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Etymology

Origin of white settler

C20: from earlier colonial sense

Example Sentences

Gregory Ablavsky, a Stanford law professor and expert in federal Indian law, said the agonizing dissension over the Coquille’s expansion plans underscores tribes’ continuing struggle — centuries after white settler colonialism — to rebuild their nations and economic viability.

From Los Angeles Times

Designated as a burial ground for the Duwamish Nation in 1800, the site was sold to the Maples, one of Seattle’s white settler families, in 1880, and until the 1930s was in regular use as a cemetery for the city’s pioneer residents of the Beacon Hill and Georgetown neighborhoods.

From Seattle Times

The new state seal features a loon amid wild rice, to replace the image of a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with a rifle at the ready.

From Seattle Times

I note that he grew up white in St. Louis, raised within white settler culture; I grew up white in majority-Black Washington, D.C., going back and forth from the dinner tables of white families, of Black families, and Black immigrant families, each one offering me a very different interpretation of the day’s news.

From Salon

Australian history taught in schools has been largely focused on British conquest of land and white settler achievement, rather than the impacts of colonisation on Indigenous people: the massacres, the cultural genocide, the policies of forced assimilation and integration which saw Aboriginal identity suppressed, Indigenous children removed from their families; policies which have led to entrenched disadvantages that continue to this day.

From BBC