What Does School On Reservation Mean?
I was watching Twilight, and one of the characters mentioned that he goes to school "on the reservation." Can someone explain what that means?
3 Answers
A reservation is like a national park. It’s a protected area. In the film it’s protected for the native indians of his type to be able to live together!
So basically he just means that he goes to the school in the ‘national park’ where all of the rest of his type go!
Jacob, the character, is Native American and he goes to a school that is located on a reservation; a reservation being an area which is reserved for a certain Native American tribe to live.
“An Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs.
There are about 310 Indian reservations in the United States, meaning not all of the country’s 550-plus recognized tribes have a reservation — some tribes have more than one reservation, others have none.”
-from Wikipedia
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