rancheria means A small settlement in the Americas, especially of Native Americans. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 91 out of 100.
noun
- 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.”
- A political division denoting a small poor rural settlement.