rancheria
Americannoun
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rancherias
plural
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a family household unit or settlement.
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a hut or house where rancheros live.
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a village of such huts.
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Rachel Williams, the vice chair of the rancheria, sat on the ground, grinding acorn meat in a stone mortar that had been handed down by her great grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025
The land is part of the original tract that the U.S. government purchased in 1928 to establish the rancheria, or small reservation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2024
During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rancheria donated $5,000 each to 60 businesses struggling to stay afloat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The rancheria agreed to make one-time payments totaling $3.6 million to support Shasta County, the Sheriff’s Department and fire and emergency services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Very frequently the explorers left notations that the inhabitants of a certain rancheria had fled, or that many were absent.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
It took a landmark 1983 court settlement to formally restore recognition of 17 rancherias, including the one in Redding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Often the land is referred to as a reservation, but also as rancherias in California and pueblos in New Mexico.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
Small reservations and rancherias for California Native Americans were created piecemeal by various Presidential executive orders and Congress.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2022
Although California has the largest Native American population in the U.S., only a small portion of California Natives live on reservations or rancherias with intact ecosystems that could benefit from cultural burns.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2022
Here they heard about, but did not see, six other rancherias "sitas a la orillas del rio por la parte de la sierra."
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
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