According to Gruber, one of the first official statements acknowledging that a major effect of colonialism was the destruction of existing languages and ways of life was The report of the British Select Committee of Aborigines (1837).
格魯伯表示，第一個正式聲明，承認殖民主義的一項重大影響是破壞現有的語言和生活方式，就是1837年的《英國專責土著委員會報告》（The report of the British Select Committee of Aborigines）。