a reservation set aside for the use of indians

a landbase that a tribe reserved for itself when it relinquished its other land areas to the U

a part of the public domain set apart by proper authority for the use and occupation of a tribe or tribes of Indians

a sovereign nation, and we're going to take it as far as we can to exercise our sovereignty," Fire Thunder said

In the United States, an Indian reservation is land which is managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Reservations were established when Americans began to forcibly take land from the American Indians, who had lived there for thousands of years. Because the land is federal territory and Native Americans have limited national sovereignty, there are often legal casinos on reservations, usually to attract tourists.