rancheria
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- noun
- /ˌrænʧəˈriə/
- US
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ranchería
- After the storm, the residents of the rancheria worked together to repair their damaged homes.
- tribal rancheria
- Robinson Rancheria
Examples
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Mabel and I were parked along a road on the south side of Clear Lake, where we had a view of the lake and of Elem Rancheria, the old village site and present-day reservation of the Elem band of Pomo Indians.
Academic text (1991) -
That's what I reminded myself later, when we were camped at a place called Rancheria Falls.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the afternoon, before sunset, we passed through a rancheria called Pale Pala, in which runs very much water, easy to take out, with much good land.
Academic text (2000) -
Mariner is later convinced of Pala's sufficient qualities as a mission site and states, "In my opinion and that of the rest, the place nearest to San Juan Capistrano el Viejo, with all the essentials for a mission, is the rancheria Pale Pala."
Academic text (2000) -
Important as hunting and gathering uncultivated plant foods were in the preconquest Pai economy, these people constituted part of the rancheria-dwelling, horticultural population of the Basin-and-Range geological province.
Academic text (1999) -
The small rancheria was home to several Indigenous families who maintained their traditional lifestyle.
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Visitors to the rancheria learned about the rich cultural heritage of the local Native American tribes.
Synonyms
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A village of connected adobe or stone houses with several floors built by Native Americans in the US southwest
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Etymology
The word rancheria comes from the Spanish ranchería, built from rancho (the English ranch) meaning 'small farm'. Think of a few houses around a ranch — that image explains why a rancheria is a small rural village, often a Native American settlement in the American Southwest.