Sentence examples for vast reservation from inspiring English sources

Elderly couples can still be seen at Bashas', having driven long distances from farmsteads dotted throughout the vast reservation.

He was referring not just to the potential for the Arapaho language's extinction but to a host of other problems that have long plagued the vast reservation, which the tribe shares with the Eastern Shoshone.

While environmentalists proclaimed it "a sad day" and prepared to appeal the decision, the Navajo president, Joe Shirley Jr., hailed the decision as much needed to improve conditions on the vast reservation across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

A third partner, Starwood Hotels, was brought in to affiliate the project with the Sheraton brand and tie it into Starwood's vast reservations network.

Unlike the vast reservations in western South Dakota, where poverty is widespread, the little-known Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation is on 5000 acres (2000 hectares) of gently rolling land along the Big Sioux River.

Mr Curley's suggestions include land-use planning that concentrates development (at present, houses tend to be scattered over the vast reservations); coaxing tribal members into high-density housing rather than single-family homes; and finding ways to oversee the use of federal cash without reverting to paternalism.

The crowd consisted of union members, including many from unions that represent government workers; Navajo activists from New Mexico's vast reservations; a modest number of hardscrabble Latinos; and a much greater number of retirement-age whites, some of whom came to the event from Santa Fe and Taos and who wore sandals and turquoise jewelry.

Four years later the vast Navajo reservation was established in New Mexico and Arizona.

The discovery came in the midst of the largest federal effort to date to clean up uranium mines on the vast Indian reservation.

Until last month, the program's director was Dr. Timothy Domer, a geriatrician who practiced medicine for more than 20 years in this remote, high-desert, red-rock landscape on the eastern fringe of the vast Navajo reservation.

For almost half a century, the hulking factories across a vast nuclear reservation here churned out the plutonium for most of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile, including the bomb used on Nagasaki.