How to Use First Nation in a Sentence

First Nation

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• This year’s games were held across 21 venues on Millbrook First Nation and Sipekne’katik tribal lands.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2023
• One blistering June evening in 2021, a wildfire burned through the entire place, and the neighboring Lytton First Nation.
  — Michaela Cavanagh, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2023
• Another study in Canada dug into why the suicide rate among First Nation youth was the highest in the world, but unequally distributed.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• It is named for people of the Dene First Nation, a group of Indigenous peoples who together represent 28 percent of the territory’s population.
  — Tracey Lindeman, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
• In a park built for members of a First Nation tribe, his team emphasized intergenerational connection, with spaces where elders can share stories with children.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• Trump has seen his favorability numbers in the First Nation caucus state fade steadily among Republicans since peaking in September of 2021.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
• Luhrmann collaborated with up-and-coming, um, aboriginal, and First Nation pop artists to incorporate their music as a form of honoring the aboriginal tradition of storytelling through song.
  — Concetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 28 Nov. 2023
• Some draw a distinction between being adopted into a Cree family under tribal law and customs, being granted citizenship to a First Nation and having Indigenous ancestry.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024