a tract of land set aside by the government for the exclusive use of a band of Indians, usually by treaty.
See also: Indian reserve
- 1859  (1959)  "Has the Government of this Island [Vancouver] the power to remove the Indians (by purchase) from that piece of land inside Victoria Harbour known as the Indian Reservation?"
- 1954  She said that this fall or next, when Stevie was old enough, she would try to get him into an Indian reservation school. . . .