Sentence examples for surrounding reservations from inspiring English sources

Duluth's international port on Lake Superior has served as a hub for commercial sex for decades, said Stark, taking advantage of the proximity of low-income Native women from surrounding reservations.

Over the past 40 years, the USCCR, an independent government agency, has held numerous hearings on discrimination in border towns surrounding reservations in New Mexico, South Dakota and Montana.

The last time New York State tried to collect cigarette taxes on Indian lands, 13 years ago, protesters blocked highways upstate and clashed with State Police troopers, who had surrounded reservations to keep cigarettes and other taxable goods from flowing in.

In border towns surrounding Indian reservations with long histories of racial violence, words that promote racism and hate have serious implications.

The house sits on a landscaped half acre; its glass walls look onto the surrounding Mills Reservation nature preserve.

"You're seeing a real renaissance of tribes becoming aware of their cultural resources and heritage, and reclaiming that heritage even when it's off the reservation," says Robert A. Williams Jr., a law professor at the University of Arizona who has advised tribes on the legal issues surrounding off-reservation sacred sites.

One of the biggest of these is the widespread commercial use of pesticides on lands surrounding the reservation.

People are repulsed by genetically modified soybeans, let alone babies, and the risks and reservations surrounding germ-line engineering of the human brain may consign it to the fate of the nuclear-powered vacuum cleaner.

Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the children's commissioner for England, says in a letter to the immigration minister, Liam Byrne, that there are "grave ethical reservations" surrounding the government's plans, as well as "severe limitations" to its effectiveness in identifying age.

In the same period, President Aquino issued EO 224 vesting in the National Power Corporation NAPOCORR) the complete jurisdiction, control and regulation of watershed areas and reservations surrounding its power-generating plants and properties.

I applied to schools surrounding the Navajo reservation because I wanted to be closer to my mother's family.