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rancheria
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ran·che·ri·a  (rnch-r)
n. Southwestern U.S.
1.
a. A Mexican herdsman's hut.
b. A village of these huts.
2. A rural Native American settlement.

[American Spanish ranchería, from rancho, small farm; see ranch.]


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Instead, it is a dramatization of the struggles between good and evil, between modesty and excess, between darkness and light, between bounty and poverty, that take place in and around the rancherias, or scattered settlements, everywhere within the region.
The D-Q Center serves more than 100 reservations, rancherias, and other small tribal communities in California and 27 in Nevada.
They live in traditional adobe rancherias, cultivate corn, beans and potatoes, raise a few chickens and put in about 24 hours a week in hard physical labor on their land.
 
 
 
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