Then-Governor Thomas Jefferson in 1781 also noted that settlers encroached on Indian land.

The settlers encroached on their land and competed for game, destroying hunting territory by clearing land and developing farms.

In the decades that followed, white settlers encroached even into the western lands set aside for Native Americans.

European American settlers followed the early fur traders and trappers, and encroached on Native American territories.

European settlers had encroached upon the land since the 17th century.

The settlers increasingly encroached on Native American lands.

The Cheyenne and Lakota had previously attacked emigrant parties in a competition for resources, and also because some settlers had encroached on their lands.

Much of the Seminoles' culture is lost, the students said, because white settlers encroached on the Indians' land, which was suitable for development.

On this night they failed to post a guard against attacks by Native Americans on whose land the settlers were encroaching.

As the white settlers encroached onto the Indian land, there were many raids and massacres reported.