Settler
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A settler or colonist is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that settlers establish is a settlement. A settler is called a pion
A depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland, 1850
Chilean settlers in Baker River, Patagonia, 1935.
A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus, c. 1910
Early European settlers in North America often built crude houses in the form of log cabins.
Cape Coloureds
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Cape Coloureds are a South African group of Coloureds who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape. Their ancestry comes from the int
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…or alteration of the existing culture, among the natives. New populations have also been created by the mixing of settlers and natives, including Cape Coloureds in South Africa and Anglo-Indians. Many times throughout history, settlers occupied land that was previously inhabited by long-established peoples, who…
Felix Florez, a Filipino man in Kalk Bay in 1863
Cape Coloured school children in Mitchells Plain
Cape Coloured children in Bonteheuwel township (Cape Town, South Africa)
The Christmas Bands are a popular Cape Coloured cultural tradition in Cape Town.