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rancherie
[< rancheria, q.v.]
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1an.
a village or settlement of Indians, especially the settled part of an Indian reserve.
See: ranch ((2)) ((n.))(def. 1 and note)
Quotations
1858
We then came to . . . a beautiful valley of some thousand acres, on which was situated a large Rancharee of Indians. . . .
1872
"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."
1929
To the west is the wretched-looking rancherie where there are three score Indians--mostly squaws and children, for the men are away hunting and getting ready for the trapping season by this time.
1963
So here I was, having come up the Cariboo Road with horses I had bought at the Indian rancherie at Clinton.
1bn. — Hist.
a settlement of other non-whites, specifically Kanakas.
See: Kanaka
Quotations
1947
A small rancherie, known as Kanaka Ranch, adjoined Viewfield farm toward the west. . . . This was the home of a small colony of Kanakas.
1958
By a civil servant's error, Kanakas with Indian wives living at the "Kanaka rancherie" on Coal Harbor and working at the inlet mills were allowed to pre-empt and improve a part of the Morton-Brighouse-Hailstone land [in 1868].
2n.
among Coast Indians, a long rectangular communal dwelling, built of cedar, housing several families, and used at times for ceremonial affairs.
Quotations
1885
Here night overtook us when opposite an Indian village, composed of several large rancheries, and a few hundred Indians.
1963
[Caption] Elliott's "Haidah Rancherie" shows the type of dwelling used . . . before "booze, bullets and bacteria" devastated the indigenous peoples.