white settler

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The American relationship to firearms has for two centuries been different from that of European nations or even that of other largely white “settler nations” like Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

From Salon

The exhibition—which travels to the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum in Oregon and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.—tracks the evolution of contemporary indigenous art, beginning with an 1875 notebook of lively drawings of dancing, hunting and celebrating figures by Tommy McRae, commissioned by a white settler, and ending with works made in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal

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