Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them

Evidence

Did the invaders exterminate the native population, or did they superimpose themselves upon them and become to some extent blended with them? … Thus serious writers contend that the Anglo-Saxon conquest was for the bulk of the British community mainly a change of masters. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107
• XREF: connects to: European colonization triggered demographic collapse and forced removal that shattered existing Indigenous societies — The Social Consequences of Colonialism; US Indian policy constitutes settler colonialism rather than mere discrimination — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 4; Settler colonialism aims to terminate peoples’ existence, not individuals — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 17 (+10 more)