settler colonialism
Permanent occupation conquest
Settler colonialism is a form of colonization where the colonizing power seeks to permanently occupy territory and replace the indigenous population rather than merely extract resources or labor.
Unlike extractive colonialism, the settlers come to stay, establishing their own society while displacing or eliminating native peoples: The United States, Australia, and Israel are often analyzed through the lens of settler colonialism.
The term appears frequently in academic and political discourse about indigenous rights and territorial dispossession.
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- migrationMovement to new territory
- assimilation policiesForced adoption of dominant culture
neocolonialism · displacement · forced relocation · blood quantum · residential schools · cultural genocide · racial hierarchies · treaties · anti-colonial movements · activism · reparations · indigenous resistance · legal frameworks · Indian Act · religious conversion · erasure · stolen · frontier expansion
settler colonialismindigenous sovereignty
Native peoples' self-governance rights
decolonization · self-determination · land back · national liberation · anticolonialism