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rancheria†
[< Am.E < Sp. ranchería]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a village or settlement of Indians, especially the settled part of an Indian reserve.
See: rancherie(def. 1a)
Quotations
1860
Fire at the Indian Rancheria.
1862
Four miners, recently returned from Victoria, on their way to Cariboo, having got on a "bend", adjourned about midnight to an Indian rancheria hard by.
1966
I rode through the Indian rancheria while the Indians were inside the cute little white church attending early morning mass.