Settler colonialism is a process by which settlers exercise colonial rule over a land and its indigenous peoples, transforming the land and replacing or assimilating its population with or into the so
American Progress (1872) by John Gast. Columbia, a personification of the United States, is shown leading civilization westward with American settlers, while Native Americans are displaced from their ancestral homeland on the left.
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa
Colonization or colonisation is defined as "the act or process of sending people to live in and govern another country". The term "colonization" is sometimes used synonymously with the word "settlemen
Settler colonialism
…of the historical Jewish connection to Palestine, among other reasons. Many of the founding fathers of Zionism themselves described the project as colonization, such as Vladimir Jabotinsky, who said "Zionism is a colonization adventure." Theodor Herzl, the founder of the World Zionist Organization, described…
A protest sign from the second half of the 20th century criticizing UN reaction to Soviet colonial expansion
A protest sign from the 1980s calling on the UN to abolish Soviet colonialism in the Baltic states
Sign on the JAO government headquarters
Photo of the first national flag assembled by a human on the Moon (Apollo 11, 1969). With colonization of space having been a critically discussed issue since the dawn of the space age, resulting in the Outer Space Treaty (1967), the flag was not to symbolize any territorial claims.