DCHP-1 Online

rancheria † [< Am.E < Sp. ranchería]

• n. a village or settlement of Indians, especially the settled part of an Indian reserve.

  See also: rancherie (def. 1a)  

  • 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.