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- adjective Not a
reservation , or not part of areservation
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Examples
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So far, 22 Indian casinos operate on nonreservation land.
Casino Developments Get a Boost A.D. Pruitt 2011
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So far, 22 Indian casinos operate on nonreservation land.
Casino Developments Get a Boost A.D. Pruitt 2011
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It is true that these young people could attend the Carlisle Indian School, and other nonreservation Indian schools, but most of them are too poor to do so, and besides these nonreservation Indian schools do not furnish precisely the character of training they desire.
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It appears from a letter from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, that there are 22 nonreservation Indian schools in various parts of the United States now supported by the Government, none of these being situated in the Southern States.
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There has always been a feeling among these people and their white neighbors that the Federal Government should make some provision for them, for the reason that the Government does expend large sums of money every year in providing schools for other nonreservation Indians in all sections of the country.
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Tom supposedly blamed the horse thefts on nonreservation Indians.
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About three months after Heffelfinger’s office raised the issue of tribal ID cards and nonreservation Indians in an October 2004 memo, his name appeared on a list of U.S. attorneys singled out for possible firing.
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