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‖ rancheria|rantʃeˈria|
Also rancheree, rancherie |ˈrɑːnʃəriː, ræn-|.
[Sp., f. rancho rancho.]
In Spanish America and Western U.S., a collection of Indian huts; a place or house where a number of rancheros live.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 678 Here the Spaniardes haue seated their Rancheria of some twentie or thirtie houses. 1760–72Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 134 Several Rancherias, or assemblages of Indian huts, are under the jurisdiction of a village. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. ix. 70 Indians crowd in from the neighbouring rancherias. 1854C. E. De Long in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1929) VIII. 200 Anderson & I fell in with an Indian Rancheria. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. ii. 37 The rancheria was astir when we arrived. 1872R. B. Johnson Very Far West Indeed 197 I'd take a dozen Injuns straight out of the rancherie, an' make a better government out of 'em than they've got up thar. 1901Canad. Mag. XVIII. 179/1 Jim is the policeman at the Indian rancheree. 1901Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 15 Oct. 3/2 A heavy cargo, including everything from shipments of lumber for Bella Coola and Kitimaat, to new gravestones for various Indians at Northern rancheries. 1914A. H. Fitch Junipero Serra iii. 222 There were many rancherias on the banks of the Colorado. 1955Sci. News Let. 16 Apr. 245/3 These [South American] Indians..live in very small communities called ‘rancherias’, consisting of from two to 15 individuals. 1963R. Symons Many Trails vii. 71 Although they own small reserves—which they call rancheries—most of them prefer a nomadic life. 1976Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 27 June 2/3 Sent their logs downstream to a booming ground near the Indian rancherie. |