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Indian reserve

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noun

  1. See reservation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

This view of the old city is taken from the rocks on the Indian reserve, and in the foreground is a large building which occupied the site of the present marine hospital.

From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett

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