Sentences with phrase «of white settlers»

Cooper hits the gas quickly with an opening sequence in which a band of rabid Comanche raiders descend upon a seemingly peaceful family of white settlers.

The treaties promised First Nations farming equipment and instruction, but it was often of poor quality, and Indigenous farmers could not sell their produce without the approval of Indian agents, who were sensitive to the concerns of white settlers who resented the competition.

Everything I learned about things like the «settling of the west» or about the Riel rebellion or the Indian Act or the residential school systems was through the lens of white settler versions of Canadian textbooks.

It was clear from the first generation of white settlers that family authority — in the traditional patriarchal European sense — was in trouble.

Kelly Reichardt's 2010 western Meek's Cutoff, set in 1845, follows a group of white settlers traversing the Oregon desert who along the way capture a Cayuse Native American — only credited as «The Indian».

For example, as the western genre has sought to eulogise the mission of white settlers, for a long time Native American characters were rarely, if ever, translated (when Native languages were used — often it was gibberish, or even English dialogue played backwards).

Blocker doesn't like Indians all that much, and Yellow Hawk isn't a big fan of the white settlers.

The Secret River is the tale of Thornhill's deep love for his small corner of the new world, and his slow realization that if he wants to settle there, he must ally himself with the most despicable of the white settlers, and to keep his family safe, he must permit terrifying cruelty to come to innocent people.

With the influx of white settlers, however, Indigenous peoples were increasingly pushed off of these territories and onto reserves.

Hostiles» difficult opening scene shows a gang of marauding Indians slaughter almost an entire family of white settlers, leaving with their horses and setting fire to their homestead.