In another age, the settlement might have been used to create reservations, to sequester aspects of a traditional life.
They began to turn that to, instead of creating these reservations, because that quickly turned out, they were going to send them to Madagascar.
Moreover, even were we to treat an Indian Reservation like a State, equitable apportionment would still not control since, under our view, the Indian claims here are governed by the statutes and Executive Orders creating the reservations.
Some agents even take matters into their own hands, creating phantom reservations — Mickey Mouse is a favorite passenger name, for example — to keep the math nerds at headquarters from overbooking a flight.
"There are those who say that this proposal will create Indian reservations, but they forget that Indians already live separated from other Mexicans and that we are at risk of extinction," she said.
Several municipalities and developers across the country have in the past tried to create Indian reservations out of private or municipal land for the purposes of creating a casino, but without success, and the Federal Government has never approved a grant of land to a tribe outside its home state, said Stephanie Hanna, a spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.
Congress gave the executive the discretion to create further reservations.
By 1986, Presidents had used this discretion to create 117 reservations totalling 632,000 acres.
Or, we'll create bullshit reservations, as we'd do for an endangered species.
With the opening of the territory to settlement in 1854, the federal government created a reservation for the Omaha people in northeastern Nebraska, part of which subsequently was made into a reservation for Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people who had been displaced from Wisconsin.
The organizer then chooses a hotel, and Roomblocker creates a group reservation page where guests reserve their rooms online.
