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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a tract of land set aside by the government for the exclusive use of a band of Indians, usually by treaty.
This term is nowadays characteristic of the United States, reserve being the more usual Canadian term.
Quotations
1859
Has the Government of this Island the power to remove the Indians (by purchase) from that piece of outside Victoria Harbour known as the Indian Reservation.
1966
They are not allowed to take it back on the reservation and if they do go into the woods, the mounties charge them for drinking in a public place. . . .