rez
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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By depicting Oklahoma rez life through the eyes of the restless teenagers raised on movies that romanticize escaping home to find themselves, Harjo’s stories bubbled over with joy and ridiculousness.
From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2026
“As she said in her Golden Globes speech ‘It’s for every little rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid who had a dream to see themselves represented, to see our stories represented.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Over its three seasons, the series did so many things well, from satirizing colonialist tropes about Indians, to honoring Native American traditions to illuminating the struggles and joys of life on the rez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
“I’m a rez boy,” Anderson said, after pulling into a Navajo roadside stand for fry bread, onions and mutton flecked with enough green chiles to draw tears.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Once, we’d teamed up to teach a group of Red Lake rez kids how to play Cherokee marbles out on the dock, and Trey had given me this look.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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