As the indigenous people of North America, Native Americans were colonized on their own land, the places to which they trace their social, cultural, and religious origins.

colonized, colonizing (of a nation or government) to claim and forcibly take control of (a territory other than its own), usually sending some of its own people to settle there.

COLONIZE meaning: 1. to send people to live in and govern another country: 2. (of animals, plants, or bacteria) to…. Learn more.

Colonization (British English: colonisation) is a process of establishing control over areas or peoples for foreign people to advance their trade, cultivation, exploitation and possibly settlement.

Definition of colonize verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. colonize something to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send …

When an area is colonized by a type of plant, the plant grows there in large amounts.

col·o·nized , col·o·niz·ing , col·o·niz·es v. tr. 1. To form or establish a colony or colonies in. 2. To migrate to and settle in; occupy as a colony.

Weeds quickly colonized the field. The island had been colonized by plants and animals.

To colonize is to settle in, and take control of, land outside your own borders. Usually, a large, powerful country colonizes a territory or area that's much less powerful.

A 1665 illustration of a Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, depicting various elements of colonialism, including its hierarchies and impact on the colonized and their lands …