Indian reserve
Britishnoun
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“The Orchid Thief” took on a typically left-field Orlean subject: the trial of a Florida horticulturalist accused of stealing endangered species from a swamp in the Seminole Indian reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Away from their home on the Six Nations of the Grand River Indian reserve, crammed into a dormitory with dozens of girls who were strangers, the 7- and 6-year-olds turned to the familiar: each other.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021
My mother was born and raised on the Six Nations Indian reserve.
From Salon ● May 23, 2020
The whole back country of the English colonies was proclaimed an Indian reserve where the King's white subjects might trade but might not acquire land.
From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Oscar Douglas Skelton
Signed near Fort Alexander, on the Indian reserve, the twenty-third day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
From The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris
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