"the rez"

i say this sometimes, thoughtlessly

please elaborate.

the reservation

I say this too but that's because I have family that live on one.

yeah the only dude i've heard say this in irl grew up on one

didn't know it cld swing negative

Never heard it in a bad way either.

haha i thought this was going to be abt the really earnest canadian tv show...

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/graphics/news3/TheRez_Complete.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41YnFKzpcFL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

love the rez
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moccasin_Flats

http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad215/jiaoqu/Moccasin-Flats_Regina_drama_eng-00.jpg

i love u candy remember when we sat beside each other on a bus to the cornwall centre???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7mHxhDSccs

makes me homesick, this stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2lQMZ_rc60

Sherman Alexie:

When I first heard the title of Ian Frazier's "On the Rez," his nonfiction study of the brief time he spent on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, I laughed out loud. A white man using the word "rez" to describe the reservation is the equivalent of a white man using the word "hood" to describe a black inner-city neighborhood. It implies a degree of cultural familiarity that is very rare.

In his role as journalist, tourist and friend to a few Oglalas, Frazier may have earned the right to call the reservation "the rez," but that would only be in the company of those Oglalas who call him friend. When used as the title of the book, Frazier's formal use of "the rez" marks him as an outsider eager to portray himself as an insider, as a writer with a supposedly original story to tell and as a white man who is magically unlike all other white men in his relationship to American Indians.

never gonna do it without the rez on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4EFNWe4mCc

I would hate to be de-rezzed