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- Dictionaryrancheria/ˌrɑːn(t)ʃəˈriːə/
noun
- 1. (in Spanish America and the western US) a small Indian settlement.
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The meaning of RANCHERIA is a dwelling place of a ranchero. How to use rancheria in a sentence.
a family household unit or settlement. a hut or house where rancheros live. a village of such huts. Discover More. Example Sentences. Each rancheria had its special place to hunt or fish, and had to fight its own battles with the other families of Indians. From Project Gutenberg.
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.
1. a. A Mexican herdsman's hut. b. A village of these huts. 2. A rural Native American settlement. [American Spanish ranchería, from rancho, small farm; see ranch.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
(ˌrɑːntʃəˈriːə ) noun. Southwestern US. a native village or settlement. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'rancheria' in a sentence. rancheria.
rancheria (ränchā´rēä), type of communal settlement formerly characteristic of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, and of various small Native American groups of the SW United States, especially in California.
reducción, in Latin America, an Indian community set up under ecclesiastical or royal authority to facilitate colonization. Native peoples, many of whom had lived in small villages or hamlets before contact with Europeans, were forcibly relocated to these new settlements.
Rancheria definition: A rural Native American settlement.
A rancheria is a term used to describe a small, often unincorporated community or settlement, primarily associated with Native American tribes in California.
[30] A rancheria is a small dependent settlement of Christianized people. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan He knew of a depository of wax-candles, and the church of the rancheria was the place in which they were kept.
