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
• But just like all other houses in Collins First Nation, her home was completely destroyed by the fires.
  — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 18 July 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
• From her home in Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, northwestern Ontario, the smoke appeared close.
  — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
• 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
• The isolated community, also known as Collins First Nation, has no road access, only a railway line and Collins Lake.
  — Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
• 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