Settler Colonialism in Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native - Patrick Wolfe ~ Wolfe outlines the difference between colonialism and settler colonialism: Colonialism's main goal is usually the extraction of resources and labor to build wealth, whereas settler colonialism involves the establishment of a colonizing society with the intent to stay on that land permanently. In settler colonialism, they aim to replace indigenous populations. As emphasized by Wolfe, "invasion is a structure, not an event" (Wolfe 388). In this, Wolfe means to describe the invasion of the settler as an ongoing process that permanently displaces and eliminates native populations of the colony. He describes this elimination as taking many forms: direct violence, political dispossession, assimilation, and cultural erasure, as examples. This elimination is not only about using violence against these indigenous people, but by assimilating them into their society. They destroyed their identity, similar to how Memmi described in The Colonizer and the Colonized. However, the difference lies in the intent. A settler eliminates identity and ties to the land to establish themselves as the governing body and overtake the indigenous people's land; whereas for the colonizer, they eliminated identity to control the population. This represents the key difference between settler colonialism and colonialism: the colonizer wanted the people to gather the resources, and with settler colonialism, the settler is focused on the land itself. The indigenous groups became an obstacle for the settlers, which then led to marginalization, removal, and assimilation.