What is "white settlement"

Usage examples of "white settlement".

By then, the Australian and Dutch colonial governments were no longer willing to open up lands for white settlement by killing native people in large numbers or driving them off their lands, as had happened during earlier centuries of European colonialism.

Tarhe hurried away from the city and never returned to the white settlement.

Ralph and his foreman cut the fattest cattle out of Matanka's herds and drove them ahead of them, up the escarpment and into the little white settlement of Fort Victoria which had grown up mid-way between the Shashi river and Fort Salisbury.

Their intention was not to prevent white settlement altogether-they were, just barely, sane enough to realize the impossibility of that.

The track to Big Bone Valley meandered a quarter mile from the public road, through forest which had remained unaffected by white settlement of the region.

He was the same Tomba who had escaped the massacre, and had taken news of the capture of his master and mistress to the white settlement.

With war raging among the whites, the Comanches had grown bold again--in some places the line of white settlement had been driven back almost one hundred miles.

By formally agreeing to prohibit white settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains, British authorities persuaded the war-weary Indian allies of the French that they no longer needed to fear invasion by the English.

But they had seen several canoes with Indians cross the river, but that there appeared to be no white settlement that they could discover.

Then burst out such another wild and frantic and deafening clamour as has not been heard on this planet since the last time the Comanches surprised a white settlement at night.

They taught him to shoot with bow and arrow, but they kept him back if a white settlement was to be plundered.