Sentences with phrase «white settlers»

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.

The film begins with a stagecoach, naturally, about to depart through the Wild West, with Geronimo leading aggressive Indian attacks against white settlers in the area.

When they are confronted by white settlers who are perhaps more brutal and unsparing than any foe they've faced, it's decision time for the duo.

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.

Alcohol is not just in our stories â $» the stories that kiciwamanawak [Cree for white settler Canadians] first told about us that some of us continue to tell and believe.

The film conveys an evocative and richly textured sense of time and place, from the often harsh and perilous physical landscapes during the waning years of the American Old West, to the prevailing cultural and sociopolitical divides that lingered between white settlers and landowners, and oppressed Native American tribes.

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.

Along the Cascadia segment, geologists could find no evidence of major quakes in «all of recorded history» — the 140 years since white settlers arrived in the Pacific Northwest and began keeping records.

Cane's account of contemporary culture also includes some intriguing evidence of the ancestors of the defendants trading fish with the early white settlers in the region.

The first permanent white settler at Hervey Bay was Boyle Martin who, with his wife and child, arrived in 1863.

In the 1850s white settlers began felling the redwoods, seeking to clear the land for homes and pasture.

And as we join all that we know about gun proliferation in America, we shall come to more accurately profile the proliferators as: 1) Self Radicalized indoctrinated Psuedo - Christians often refered to as «Evangelicals» 2) Poorly educated 3) Possessing abnormally dysfunctional cognitive capabilities 4) Lonely 5) Emaciated 6) Welfare beneficiaries or otherwise, tax avoiders 7) Descendant from white settlers.

With the colonial economy dominated by agriculture for more than half a century, white settlers fought first to annex the territory and then silence dissent.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers» violence toward Native Americans.

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.

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.

He settles into a mountain home with his family, but the U.S. cavalry, complete with a puritanical Reverend, interrupt the idyll to compel Jeremiah to lead them over the mountains and through a Crow burial ground to rescue white settlers.

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».

But he's a glaring exception in a brutal world where white settlers treat natives like slaves.

Dustin Hoffman is superb as a young white settler kidnapped by the Indians and raised as one of them, who is abruptly «rescued» to return to the white world.

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.»

Or where the Native American warrior kidnaps a virginal white settler, rapes her into loving him, and then kills a bunch of colonists while she whets his tomahawk.

Sullivan gathers a posse led by the dangerous and fascinating Inspector Edmund Noone and his Queensland Native Police, an infamous arm of British colonial power charged with the «dispersal» of indigenous Australians to «protect» white settler rights.

Once the home of the Cadigal people, who called it Kutti, white settlers named it for Robert Watson, the harbourmaster of the port of Sydney from 1811.

The idea is to stop American white settlers passing through town and alerting the sheriff to your illicit activities by taking them out before they make it (a little bit like Tower Raiders).

The Obed Wild and Scenic River looks much the same today as it did when the first white settlers strolled its banks in the late 1700s.

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The Cherokee coexisted with white settlers until the discovery of gold in Georgia in 1828.

This trail was used by white settlers following the American Revolution.

Cheryl Currie has European white settler ancestry.

He established British rule in the late 19th Its rich farmland and copper and diamond mines made it a popular destination for white settlers.

Ralph Taeger played Hondo Lane, a former cavalry scout, who tries to broker a treaty between white settlers and Native Americans in the Arizona Territory.

While collecting information for his work «Gatherings of a naturalist in Australasia,» G. Bennet marveled at the use of emu oil by Aborigines and early white settlers to heal wounds, reduce pain and relieve muscular disorders with great success.

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

[77][91] In the 1984 interview, Abbott criticised the Unionist population of Northern Ireland as an «enclave of white supremacist ideology comparable to white settlers in Zimbabwe» and called for their views to be ignored on the question of Unification adding «Ireland is our struggle — every defeat of the British state is a victory for all of us.

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 first white settlers were sponsored by the Dutch West India Company in the 1620s and 1630s.

As proof of this fact, you should understand that it wasn't so long ago that white settlers in this country held black slaves to forced labor, and virtually all religions of those days condoned the practice.

For example, Westerners visiting the hospital were displeased at Schweitzer's insistence that the animals be allowed to go wherever they wanted without harm — animals were in fact often cared for as tenderly and thoroughly as any white settler.

They are songs of creation, handed down from the Dreamtime, mythic maps of lands that white settlers have taken away.

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

White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

From Erin: Hi Randy, I live in Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada... highly populated region of First Nations (mainly Cree and Dene) and Metis people... What do you see the role being for the white settlers now?

The Creek and Seminole inhabitants of Florida adopted the peaches and they were passed from tribe to tribe and spread throughout North America faster than the white settlers.