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Indian reserve

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noun

  1. See reservation

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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

Fort Ryan where the Colonel held command, was in the Indian reserve and five miles south of Cedar Mountain.

From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson

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 Skelton, Oscar Douglas