rancherie

American  

[ran-chuh-ree] / ˈræn tʃə ri /

noun

Canadian.

1. an Indian village or settlement, especially one located on a reserve.

2. any one of the large rectangular cedar buildings erected by Pacific Coast Indians for communal living and ceremonial purposes.

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rancherie British  

/ ˈrɑːntʃərɪ /

noun

1. (in British Columbia, Canada) a settlement of North American Indians, esp on a reserve

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Etymology

Origin of rancherie

An Americanism dating back to 1590–1600; earlier rancheria, from Spanish, derivative of rancho; rancho

Example Sentences

It is very undutiful, for he must have been anxious; but I really can't help feeling amused when I think of him and Mr. Valentine being left on the beach to sleep in the Siwash rancherie.

From Project Gutenberg

He was not in any way an active man, and appeared quite content to sit in the cockpit reading, when Valentine, who had procured a Siwash river canoe—a long, light shell of cedar with some two feet beam—offered to take his daughter up the Inlet to see the rancherie.

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They took me back with them to their rancherie—you could find that—and sailed me across to Comox by and by.

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“Well,” he said, “how far was the inlet from the rancherie?”

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“With a head wind, we’ll be some time working up to the rancherie, and then we have thirty miles of coast to search for the inlet Hartley reached,” he said.

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