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Definition of rez in English: rez(also res) nounrɛzrez North American informal usually in singular A North American Indian reservation or reserve. he is a Navajo who grew up on the rez in Ganado Example sentencesExamples - Real Indian humor is something in your community or your home, and the funniest people are maybe your uncle, or a cab driver, or someone on the rez.
- It's hard to imagine reservation life if you've never been to a rez yourself, and images from films like Smoke Signals only provide snapshots of places thousands of young Native Californians call home.
- More than escapism, it provides youth with a sense of belonging and camaraderie, a means of achieving some sort of victory, an opportunity to explore life off the rez.
- We have oil on our land and casinos, but on the Rez back home, most people who get money don't do anything with it.
- But despite all of this - or perhaps because of it - basketball is played on the rez and played very well.
- Father Stone drove the twenty miles from the nearest off-rez town, eastward on the spruce- and swamp-lined two-lane county road that dead-ended at the rez.
- Ian lived here in Missoula for a few years while he did his research on his book, The Rez - about Indian reservation life (perhaps one of the few natural resources still remaining in this state).
- The day before my last at the res, I got to do a traditional sweat.
- When I visit the rez, I am an outsider ... so I get treated with some suspicion.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation of reservation. Definition of rez in US English: rez(also res) nounrez North American informal usually in singular A North American Indian reservation or reserve. he is a Navajo who grew up on the rez in Ganado Example sentencesExamples - We have oil on our land and casinos, but on the Rez back home, most people who get money don't do anything with it.
- When I visit the rez, I am an outsider ... so I get treated with some suspicion.
- More than escapism, it provides youth with a sense of belonging and camaraderie, a means of achieving some sort of victory, an opportunity to explore life off the rez.
- It's hard to imagine reservation life if you've never been to a rez yourself, and images from films like Smoke Signals only provide snapshots of places thousands of young Native Californians call home.
- The day before my last at the res, I got to do a traditional sweat.
- But despite all of this - or perhaps because of it - basketball is played on the rez and played very well.
- Real Indian humor is something in your community or your home, and the funniest people are maybe your uncle, or a cab driver, or someone on the rez.
- Ian lived here in Missoula for a few years while he did his research on his book, The Rez - about Indian reservation life (perhaps one of the few natural resources still remaining in this state).
- Father Stone drove the twenty miles from the nearest off-rez town, eastward on the spruce- and swamp-lined two-lane county road that dead-ended at the rez.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation of reservation. |