How to Use First Nation in a Sentence

First Nation

noun
  • The Williams Lake First Nation search led to the discovery of more graves.
    — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The two were a part of the Long Plain First Nation, according to the reports.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Anybody for First Nation Creek or Mettawa Creek?
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Michelle Cameron, a member of the Peguis First Nation, started her label in Winnipeg five years ago.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • Fort Severn is an indigenous Cree First Nation, home to around 500 people.
    — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The Mi’kmaq First Nation resided on the land for thousands of years before European settlers arrived.
    — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Sabe), the leader of the Turtle Lodge in Sagkeeng First Nation, also contributed to the patch.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The long-term goal is for Fawn Bluff to become a fully non-profit hybrid hospitality project that will serve as an asset of the Homalco First Nation.
    — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Some First Nation groups, many of whom welcomed the ruling to block the independence petition, responded with disappointment to Smith’s announcement.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 22 May 2026
  • Over on Vancouver Island, a group of land defenders were fighting to stop the felling of old-growth trees in a grove called Fairy Creek, on the land of the Pacheedaht First Nation.
    — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • If time allows, drive an hour east to Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park to learn about Siksika First Nation culture.
    — Karen Gardiner, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Then there’s Tofino’s Tin Wis Resort, which is owned and operated by the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on its ancestral property.
    — Alexandra Marvar, AFAR Media, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The patch was created by Anishinaabe artist Henry Guimond of Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • She was raised in Manigotagan, a small town in the Canadian province of Manitoba, and is a member of the Hollow Water First Nation.
    — Nick Lentz, CBS News, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The music is by acclaimed tenor, composer and musicologist Jeremy Dutcher, a member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation).
    — Jennie Punter, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Fawn Bluff is anchored in regenerative hospitality and works with the Homalco First Nation on social, medical, and artistic programs.
    — Katie Nanton, Travel + Leisure, 30 Dec. 2025
  • To solve that problem, in 2023 Quebec’s legislature passed a new law to allow a First Nation to co-own infrastructure with a Crown Corporation.
    — Petala Ironcloud, Time, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and the Lennox Island First Nation, for instance, have been partners in research and monitoring.
    — Phil De Luna, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Bella Coolla, about 270 miles northwest of Vancouver, is home to the Nuxalk First Nation, an Indigenous community.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Families with the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi, an Indigenous community in Quebec, were devastated by the loss of their traditional hunting, fishing and campgrounds.
    — Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Writer, director, producer and actor Tailfeathers is a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
  • David, a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, was found dead in March 2016 at a friend's Port Angeles apartment.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The Gitga'at First Nation has occupied this land for millennia, and each year Maple Leaf Adventures agrees to certain protocols in order to explore Gitga'at and other unceded tribal territory here in search of whales, grizzlies, and other wildlife.
    — Crai S. Bower, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2023

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