Indian reserve
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
"He's layin' to get a shot at our runner," declared Stover, while Mr. Cloudy, forgetting his Indian reserve, explained in classic English his own theory of the nocturnal visits.
From Going Some by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Gleichen.—Forty-five bushels of No. 1 Northern wheat per acre was the yield on the Blackfoot Indian reserve in 1913.
From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior
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