Sentence examples for smaller reservation from inspiring English sources

The document ultimately forced the tribe, which once dominated a vast swath of Montana, onto a smaller reservation.

The treaty provided for a much smaller reservation, and provided that whites were not allowed to encroach on the reservation, and to further reduce the land would require an approval of three-fourths of the tribal members.

If it chooses its products wisely, it may be protected from competition by big companies through the "small-scale reservation".

There are also believers with smaller reservations about the Darwinian story.

With the coming of settlers, the tribe was confined to ever smaller reservations.

The Ute were eventually placed on a reservation in the Uinta Basin and the Southern Paiute and Shoshone on smaller reservations; later, the lands south of the San Juan River were incorporated into the Navajo Reservation.

Treaties between European settlers and the Dakota and Ojibwe gradually forced the natives off their lands and on to smaller reservations.

We believe language should be adaptable, but we can't help adding one small reservation.

My one small reservation is that sometimes it all gets a bit too slick and stylish for its own good.

Unlike some tribes left with only a casino or a small reservation, the Nez Perce are not a mere passive presence in this part of the West.

Not least because "The Slap" appears to refute this small reservation, the collection's opening story is my favorite among the new offerings, and may even rival "Cat 'n' Mouse" and "A Visit" in my Millhauser hall of fame.