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fly-in reserve
DCHP-3 (Mar 2024)
n. — Indigenous, Northern Canada
a reserve that is only accessible by plane.
Type: 1. Origin — Given that reserve is the Canadian name for land on which First Nations bands hold western title, the term fly-in reserve is Canadian as well.
Quotations
1978
A reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in Thunder Bay got a different answer. He was told anyone who had not checked in advance would not be allowed into the fly-in reserve.
2002
When she died five years ago, the retiree from the fly-in reserve of Pukatawagan, nearly 800 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, picked up a new guitar and penned his now famous ode to the northern Cree community, where he grew up trapping muskrat and beaver.
2016
A film about a zombie apocalypse on a fly-in First Nation reserve is garnering international attention. The short film "REZilience" is currently playing at festival in four different countries and will be screening in Hollywood this November at the LA Skins Fest and the American Indian Institute Film Festival.
2018
[In Neskantaga, a remote fly-in reserve also in northern Ontario, residents have been boiling water for 23 years after a water treatment plant that was built in 1993 broke down. The government has only now started completing the repairs, which would help end the country’s longest drinking-water advisory. In the meantime, bottles of water are flown in on cargo planes each week and rationed out to the nearly 240 residents.]
2025
Word of dogs being shot on the fly-in reserve made the rounds on social media last week after KI's chief and council notified residents that "there will be a dog shoot" and advised residents to "tie up your dog/s if you want to keep them."