ranchería

plural rancherías

1. alternativeAlternative form of rancheria.

   The Wayúu live spread out, their rancherías passed down matrilineally.

   2023 June 5, Ruaridh Nicoll, “A wild ride to South America’s northern tip”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023

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   In one of the rancherías was met a native of Cíbola, who gave mucli information about its seven towns, Ahacus being the largest—exaggerated though in a sense tolerably accurate descriptions of the since well-known Pueblo towns.

   1889, Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Niza and Coronado in Arizona. 1539–1540.”, in The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, Publishers, →OCLC, page 31

   Houses were scattered as much as a half mile apart, and the group occupying the scattered houses often shifted from one ranchería location to another in the course of the year. The ranchería peoples were all agriculturalists and for them farming was a major activity.

   1962, Edward H[olland] Spicer, “The Ranchería Peoples”, in Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on the Indians of the Southwest, 1533–1960, Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, published 1967 (2nd printing), →LCCN, →OCLC, introduction (Cultural Frontiers), page 12

   La Pérouse [i.e., Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse] thought warfare so dominant that it constrained Indian movement, stating of one ranchería “as their people are at war with their neighbors, they can never travel further than twenty or thirty leagues.”

   2015, John Ryan Fischer, “Landscapes”, in Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawaiʻi, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 52

   Tijuana is the city of my true heritage: Both my parents are from here, and my grandparents emigrated from other regions of Baja and northern Mexico to help populate the ranchería that was barely even a stop on the road when it was founded about 150 years ago.

   2024 January 30, Daniel Hernandez, “The original Caesar salad has been made this way for 100 years in Tijuana”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2024