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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).
Actors: Eugene Borden (actor), Francis X. Bushman (actor), Beverly Bayne (actress), Helen Dunbar (actress), Christy Cabanne (writer), Christy Cabanne (writer), Christy Cabanne (director), Sue Balfour (actress), Charles Fang (actor), Jack Prescott (actor), Baby Ivy Ward (actress), William H. Stevens (miscellaneous crew), Mildred Richter (editor), Robert Carson (actor), John Weiss (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Drama,Actors: Lionel Barrymore (actor), Charles Craig (actor), Edward Dillon (actor), Edward Dillon (actor), Charles Gorman (actor), Robert Harron (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Harry Hyde (actor), J. Jiquel Lanoe (actor), Wilfred Lucas (actor), Charles Hill Mailes (actor), W. Chrystie Miller (actor), Frank Opperman (actor), Alfred Paget (actor), Jack Pickford (actor),
Plot: An army scout, Stephen, asks a young woman to marry him, only to discover that she loves another man. Stephen rejoins the army, while the other two get married and have a child. Two years later, the young family heads west as part of a wagon train, while the scout takes part in a brutal raid on an Indian village that leaves the survivors thirsting for revenge. As the wagon train including the young family heads into dangerous country, Stephen is part of the military escort that is assigned to protect it. Not long afterward, when the wagons stop to make camp, Indians stage a carefully planned attack on the camp.
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