rancheria

plural rancherias · alternative ranchería · alternative rancherio

1. A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.First known use 16th c.

   As for escaping, there were eight hundred miles of dry wilderness between the ranchería and civilization.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 98

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   The springs are so few in number that their names are household words in every Indian rancheria and every settler's home; and there are no brooks, no creeks, and no rivers but the trunk of the Colorado and the trunk of the Gila.

   1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22

2. PhilippineshistoricalA political division denoting a small poor rural settlement.