settler colonialism

noun

: colonialism in which people from a colonizing nation or state migrate to an area and establish a settler colony that functions to extend and maintain the colonizing power's control over the area

Settler colonialism, by definition, advantages settlers over Indigenous peoples, and this deluge rapidly alienated millions of acres from tribes such as the Cherokee …

—Ned Blackhawk

Greed, status and state-building are the key dynamics animating settler colonialism, and these dynamics can be found everywhere.

—Lachlan McNamee

Due to the seriousness of Oromo resistance to slavery and colonialism, it took over 30 years to establish Ethiopian settler colonialism and its institutions in various Oromo regions.

—Asafa Jalata

settler colonialist noun

or settler-colonialist

ˈse-tᵊl-ər-kə-ˈlō-nē-ə-list 

ˈset-lər-,

-nyə-list

plural settler colonialists or settler-colonialists

European settler colonialists

settler colonialist adjective

or settler-colonialist

a settler colonialist state

settler-colonialist policies

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above