Forum:Cat Terminology: Pioneers vs settlers vs colonists

To a US audience, these terms imply certain periods of US history, but if we are global, then really we need a term that applies with no implicit meanings to Polynesian colonizers, as much as it does to Europeans landing in NZ, as it does to the US westward expansion/ seizure of American indian lands.


 * Can we collapse all these meanings to one term- meaning first insertion of an ethnically coherant group into an area previously not inhabited by that group. Settlers or colonizers does it for me.  Don't care which one.  If there is more than one term, I'd like us to make it clear what the difference is.
 * ~  Ph l o x  05:29, 22 November 2007 (UTC)