Ranchería

[1][2] Anglo-Americans adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the residential area of a rancho in the American Southwest, housing aboriginal ranch hands and their families.

The term is still used in other parts of Spanish America; for example, the Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia call their villages rancherías.

In California, the term refers to a total of 59 Indian settlements established by the U.S. government, 54 of them between 1906 and 1934, for the survivors of the aboriginal population.

San Diego State University maintains a reference titled California Indians and Their Reservations: An Online Dictionary.

[4]The word migrated north with the 49ers to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in an adapted form, "rancherie".