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.

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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.

colonize something to take control of an area or a country that is not your own, especially using force, and send people from your own country to live there The area was colonized by the Vikings.

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

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