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rancheria
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rancheria \Ran`che*ri"a\ (r[.a]n`ch[asl]"r[=e]"[.a]), n. [Sp. rancheria.]
A dwelling place of a ranchero.
A small settlement or collection of ranchos, or rude huts, esp. for Indians. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]
Formerly, in the Philippines, a political division of the pagan tribes.
Wikipedia
The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages and to the workers' quarters of a ranch. English adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the residential area of a rancho in the American Southwest, housing aboriginal ranch hands and their families. The term is still used in other parts of Spanish America, for example, the Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia call their villages rancherías.
The Columbia Encyclopedia describes it as:
a type of communal settlement formerly characteristic of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Tepehuanes of Durango, Mexico, and of various small Native American groups of the Southwestern U.S., especially in California. These clusters of dwellings were less permanent than the pueblos (see Pueblo) but more so than the camps of the migratory Native Americans.The term could be applied to the settlements of the California Mission Indians beyond the Spanish missions, such as Maugna of the Tongva people.
Usage examples of "rancheria".
The women of the rancheria went about the business of making the last meal of the day.
Ryan was aware of the rancheria settling down all around him, ready for the darkness.
He looked back down the street and across the baked land of New Mexico toward the maze of mesas and arroyos that concealed the rancheria of the Mescalero.
For a moment his mind wandered back to the rancheria at Drowned Squaw Canyon, to his friends who were waiting for him and to Steps Lightly Moon.
The sun had virtually disappeared, and the rancheria was in near darkness.
He had taken his sixteen-year-old son and left the Apache rancheria without a backward glance, his reason for staying with the People having died with Pale Gray Dove.
All it would take was one scream and the whole rancheria would be up in arms.
With a nod, Matilda followed Blue Hawk across the rancheria and into a large, brush-covered wickiup.
Jess had told her there was only one entrance into the rancheria, that this sheltered valley in the mountains was the favored stronghold of Cochise.
There was a commotion at the entrance of the rancheria and Matilda glanced up at Jess, wondering what was going on.
Eighty years ago, it was awarded to him by Sir Francis Drake himself for his part in the capture and sack of the port of Rancheria on the Spanish Main.
Sometimes, with the other boys, he played that they were raiding a Mexican rancheria, but this sport afforded him no such thrill as did the stalking of the armed men who were always hunting his people.
To Cartagena came the gold and emeralds of New Granada, the pearls of Margarita and Rancherias, and the indigo, tobacco, cocoa and other products of the Venezuelan coast.
The music ran to rancherias and conjuntos, and the language was almost exclusively Spanish.
Rancherias and conjuntos make American country-western songs sound like Viennese waltzes.