rancheria

noun

1. A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans.

   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.

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

   historical

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish ranchería. Doublet of rancherie.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry rancheria (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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