Sentences with phrase «white settlers began»

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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.

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.

In Shannon Te Ao's installation «With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods», commissioned for the Edinburgh Art Festival, the New Zealand artist begins to intone a 19th - century lament for a Māori princess afflicted by leprosy (a disease which arrived with white colonial settlers), his heavy voice flecked by drones and the rustling of foliage.