A Rancherie is a

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residential area of an

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in colloquial

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throughout the

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. Originating in an adaptation of ''

ranchería The Spanish word ranchería, or rancherío, refers to a small, rural settlement. In the Americas the term was applied to native villages or bunkhouses. Anglo-Americans adopted the term with both these meanings, usually to designate the resident ...

'', a Californian term for the residential area of a '' rancho'', where most farm hands were aboriginal, the term later came to be used throughout British Columbia. In modern usage it is often a new residential area, but traditionally it is the oldest group of residences, typically log cabins or similar, generally clustered around a church. In some reserves where there is more than one residential area, "the rancherie" would mean a specific one of the group, typically the oldest. Rancherie does not refer to the whole of a reserve, or of a group of reserves run by a band government, but only to the community area so designated. The term is also in wide use outside of First Nations peoples, and is generally part of the vernacular in most small British Columbia towns with adjacent or contiguous Indian Reserves, with little or no derogatory overtones.

The Kanaka Rancherie

Historically the term could also be used for certain non-aboriginal (but also non-white, mostly) communities, most notably the

Kanaka Rancherie Kanaka may refer to: * Kanak people, the indigenous Melanesian residents of New Caledonia * '' kanaka maoli'', traditional name native of the Hawaiian people * Kanaka (Pacific Island worker), workers from Pacific Islands employed in British colon ...

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, which was the core of the local Hawaiian community since the earliest days of

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, its remnants - also known as the Cherry Orchard - lasting well into the 1920s.

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The Kanaka Rancherie

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