Sentences with phrase «on white settlers»

A Comanche attack on white settlers leaves three children and one man dead, a homestead in flames and a suddenly widowed survivor, Rosalee Quaid, played by Rosamund Pike, crazed with grief.

Not exact matches

The eradication of wetlands in the so - called New World began when white settlers, intent on taming the land, started developing homesteads and town sites throughout what was to become the United States and Canada.

Warwick Thornton's Sweet Country, which won deserved prizes at last year's Venice and Toronto film festivals, carries on that tradition in eccentric, elegiac style, tackling the country's history of colonial oppression with a Western about the manhunt for an aboriginal stockman (Hamilton Morris) who kills a white settler in self - defense.

Though to be fair, Sydney Pollack's «Out of Africa» (left) does all it can to avoid making any statement about the suffering of Africans under colonialism, placing focus instead on its white characters, played by Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, a pair of European settlers in Kenya.

The way it portrays the clash of cultures between the white settlers and the Native Americans whose lands were taken, corrupting the souls of those on both... Read More»

I can still remember how, growing up, everybody (even the Native American kids) not only rooted for the frontiersmen to defeat the wild Injuns on TV, but we also preferred to be white settlers whenever we played «Cowboys and Indians.»

Each encounter along the way, most horrifically brutal, is designed to add some variation on the theme, and all boil down to: both white settlers and Native Americans committed atrocities and both have to find some way to reconcile with the past.

In the first decades of the 19th century, the Cherokees did everything possible to adapt to the white settler culture that was encroaching on their homeland.

Patent also shows the impact of the later intrusion of white settlers and the intervention of the U.S. Army on the Plains Indians» way of life.

Patent traces the bond between Native Americans and horses, describing how many First Nations people relied on the animals to assist them in hunting buffalo and how the intrusion of white settlers spelled disaster for their way of life.

The drive also includes the historic spot on Alki Beach where the first white settlers arrived in Seattle and spent the winter of 1851 before retreating to the less blustery site on Elliot Bay that became downtown.

By the 1930s, few Aboriginal people remained on the islands, other than those employed by white settlers.