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Settler colonialism describes when colonial powers forcibly create permanent or long-term settlements on the lands of Indigenous people and other local communities; the ongoing assertion of new systems and worldviews, dismantling of Indigenous cultural forms, and elimination of Indigenous peoples. - Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, adapted by Michelle Xie^[1]

Examples of settler colonialism

Indigenous Peoples, the Canadian state and settlers	After a few temporary settlements, permanent European colonies started arriving to the Northern half of turtle island, or so-called Canada, in the late 1500s. ^[2] The effects of these settlements were horrific for the Indigenous inhabitants that had been on the land since time immemorial. See our definitions page for anti-colonialism for examples of it's consequences. Today, projects funded by and to benefit settlers and the Canadian state, are forced through Indigenous territory without the consent of the Indigenous Nations who inhabit the land, further illustrating the effects of settler colonialism.
South Africa, Europeans and settlers ^[3]	In 1652, the arrival of Europeans sparked the beginning of settler colonialism in South Africa. The Dutch East India company was set up at the Cape, and imported large numbers of slaves from Africa and Asia during the mid-seventeenth century.

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↑ Cavanagh, E (2013). Settler colonialism and land rights in South Africa: Possession and dispossession on the Orange River. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 10–16.

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[3] Cavanagh, E (2013). Settler colonialism and land rights in South Africa: Possession and dispossession on the Orange River. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 10–16.

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-Adrienne Maree Brown  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
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-''"I tend to think of abolition as one result of transformative justice: abolition is the end of prisons; transformative justice is the methods people use to uproot injustice patterns in communities. I tend to think of abolition as a totality, and I think that can be tricky. People set out to abolish slavery and we ended up with the prison industrial complex because while there were surface and policy level shifts, the culture did not shift. That deep underlying racism and classism remains and is now roaring to the surface as we write this. So, while I identify as an abolitionist, I find speaking about the iterative tangible work of transformative justice makes more sense to me now–I don’t simply want the prisons gone, I want a radically different way of interacting with each other to grow."''
+*After a few temporary settlements, permanent European colonies started arriving to the Northern half of turtle island, or so-called Canada, in the late 1500s. <ref>https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-impact-of-european-exploration-colonization-on-canada.html</ref> The effects of these settlements were horrific for the Indigenous inhabitants that had been on the land since time immemorial. See our definitions page for [[anti-colonialism]] for examples of it's consequences.
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-Mia Mingus  <ref>https://transformharm.org/the-fictions-and-futures-of-transformative-justice/#:~:text=adrienne%20maree%20brown.,think%20that%20can%20be%20tricky.</ref>
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-''"I understand abolition to be a necessary part of transformative justice because prisons, and the PIC, are major sites of individual and collective violence, abuse, and trauma. However, transformative justice is and must also be a critical part of abolition work because we will need to build alternatives to how we respond to harm, violence, and abuse. Just because we shut down prisons, does not mean that these will stop. Transformative justice has roots in abolition work and is an abolitionist framework, but goes beyond abolishing prisons (and slavery) and asks us to end–and transform the conditions that perpetuate–generational cycles of violence such as rape, sexual assault, child abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, war, genocide, poverty, human trafficking, police brutality, murder, stalking, sexual harassment, all systems of oppression, dangerous societal norms, and trauma."''
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