- published: 19 Mar 2010
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A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. Settlers are generally from a sedentary culture, as opposed to nomads who share and rotate their settlements with little or no concept of individual land ownership. Settlements are often built on land already claimed or owned by another group. Many times settlers are backed by governments or large countries.
One can witness how settlers very often occupied land previously home to long-established peoples, designated as indigenous (also called "natives", "Aborigines" or, in the Americas, "Indians"). In some cases (such as Australia), as colonialist mentalities and laws change, the legal ownership of some lands is contested by indigenous people, who either claim or seek restoration of traditional usage, land rights, native title and related forms of legal ownership or partial control.
The word "settler" was not originally usually used in relation to unfree labour immigrants, such as slaves (e.g. in the United States), indentured labourers (such as in Colonial America), or convicts (such as in British America, c. 1615–1775; Australia 1788-1868).
steelrose
without sense
glowing in red
scorching my hands
steelrose
restricted rights
scorched soul
my heart ignites
too much pain
too much utilize
too much time
too much sacrifice
Steelrose - vanity overdose
steelrose
thorns like razorblades
cut me deep
my blood shall be the water
which annihilates the flame
steelrose
blood smeared hands
red becomes black
I will be the Ice
which crushes your might
don't you understand