white settler
Britishnoun
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Origin of white settler
C20: from earlier colonial sense
Example Sentences
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The new symbols eliminate an old state seal that featured 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
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
It includes the current state seal, slightly tweaked from the 1858 original, which depicts a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with his rifle leaning on a nearby stump.
From Seattle Times
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