Their lands would be constantly encroached upon by white settlers; border desperadoes would steal their stock, corrupt their women, and besot their warriors.
The Indians, however, were shrewd enough to perceive that the granting of such a permission would be but an entering wedge for splitting their country in twain, and afford excuse for the encroachments of white settlers.
King, the founder of Kingston, settled in Linn county in 1839 when Indians were numerous and the white settlers scattered.
White settlers came in, driving the Red Men out: hunting became poor and the Indians could not subsist and they were again removed to the Blue Earth reservation in Minnesota in 1848.
With the exception of a few settlements of white people along Lake Michigan and in the mining region around Dubuque there were few, if any, white settlers.
He can remember the time when the Indians were more numerous than the white settlers, when the great forests stood in their primeval strength, for the work of cutting the timber had not then been begun.
During that time Walla Walla, as well as the other parts east of the mountains, was swept clean of white settlers.
But it should not be forgotten that within a short time after the incoming of white settlers, all the leading churches sent missionaries into the Northwest, both for the Indians and whites.
These Indians were encroached upon by white settlers, on soil they believed to be their own, and when these encroachments became intolerable, they were compelled in their own estimation to take up arms.
In the following year their agent writes thus of the results which have followed the opening of this large tract to white settlers: "The Indians have experienced enough to shake their confidence in the laws which govern the white race.
In 1890, the year following the opening of the first land in the territory to white settlers, the mission work in the territory was described as "very interesting and unique.
On the day of the Oklahoma Opening, throngs of white settlers stood at the boundary and at a given signal rushed upon the land, taking it by speed and strategy and trickery--and too often by violence.
The whole vast region occupied by these numerous, brave, and manly Indians was still free from the intrusion of white settlers, save a handful in the Walla Walla valley and about Colville.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white settlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
