About the more permanent rancherias and on many abandoned sites lie ahsts usually too heavy for convenient transportation.
There might be anywhere from "2 to 6 to 8" rancherias per nohot.
Amplifying this count, he says: "It was the custom of the Indians to establish their rancherias upon the grants of the early settlers, in order to gain a livelihood by occasional labor.
Two nohots and two rancheriaswould indicate a minimum of 330 people.
Merriam says it was either (1) the name of a lake the valley of which contained three rancherias or (2) on Oleyome band, located 4 miles northeast of Middletown.
He then adds the following: Their rancherias were numerous throughout the length of the valley.
She-ko-ki-chut-te consisted of "two big rancherias and roundhouse.
It was stated previously that 402 baptisms are on record from three rancherias in the Santa Rosa area.
By comparison with the rancherias around Clear Lake and in Alexander Valley we could consider that the four large towns contained 200 persons apiece.
If we allow four to be "a number" and assume that the rancherias were all subordinate to the nohots, the population would have been 760, a not excessive estimate.
Sometimes the rancherias were occupied from year to year, especially in time of peace, but usually they were occupied only during seasons of cultivation.
Such groups of ruins and pueblos with accessory rancherias are still inhabited, and have been described as found throughout the Plateau Province except far to the north beyond the Uinta Mountains.
Other pueblos, and the rancherias generally, were abandoned in time of war; this seems to have been a potent cause for moving.
Pike, they were between us and the Palomitas rancherias of Mesa Blanca or I'd have made a try to get through and warn the Indians there.
Neither, my General, it is the women who are left of the rancherias of Palomitas.
In the old old days it had housed all the vaqueros, but now the ranchmen were divided up on different outlying rancherias and the many rooms of Granados were mostly empty.
The little rancherias scattered over it in the fertile valleys, were worked on the scratch gravel, ineffective Mexic method by the Juans and Pedros whose family could always count on mesquite beans, and camotes if the fields failed.
He claims more leagues than have ever been reckoned or surveyed, took in several Indian rancherias last year when the natives were rounded up and shipped to Yucatan.
Here mention may be made also of the location of rancherias and numbers of Negritos in the provinces adjoining Zambales, as attention is frequently called to them later, especially those of Bataan, for the sake of comparison.
Practically all of the Negrito rancherias are within the jurisdiction of the two towns of Botolan and San Marcelino.
A visit to the rancherias near Subig and Olongapo concluded the investigation.
And so uncertain are the habits of the more settled Negritos that one of the thirty rancherias known to-day may to-morrow be nothing more than a name, and some miles away a new rancheria may spring up.
Head Ceremony In the southern rancherias a bamboo platform is erected 20 or 30 feet high, with a ladder leading up to it from the ground.
Four little rancherias were passed, the people of two of which had already visited us.
The more prosperous Negritos in the long-established rancherias have four-posted houses of bamboo, with roof and sides of cogon grass.
Troops were disembarked at Pandang-pandang, Kadungdung, Tampukan, and Bwal; they burned parts of these rancherias and made some advances inland.
The Sultan of Sulu shall direct at once all the Datus and Chiefs of the Moro rancherias [299] to make up lists of the names of the inhabitants composing each aggregation, giving therein, besides the names, the status of each individual.
General Paulin conducted an expedition to Lu'uk to chastise the rancherias of Tu'tu' and Bwal, which were reported to be the chief centers of hostility and disturbance on the island.
The maharaja and the chiefs of seven other rancherias of Lu'uk then surrendered themselves and swore allegiance to Spain.
From a statement in a Spanish official publication, the Ilongote dialect is spoken in two towns and twenty-two rancherias of Nueva Vizcaya, and in four rancherias in the district of Principe.
These people have scattered rancherias toward Baler and sustain trading relations with the Tagalog of that town, but are hostile with the Ilongot of the Nueva Vizcaya jurisdiction.
Abella clearly states that he saw three rancherias in addition to Pescadero.
That the area had suffered severely before that is attested by the deserted and "ruined" rancherias seen by Duran in 1817.
Furthermore four chiefs would imply four more or less equal subdivisions, or four rancherias and possibly 4,000 inhabitants.
In the list of rancherias appended by Munoz, the approximate sequence of the journey is followed.
Among these are rancheriasstated as belonging to the "nacion Juchium" together with the separate designation "Tuchimes.
It was noted by Rodriguez that: "Estas 3 rancherias son una misma que es la de los Jaimes.
Here they heard about, but did not see, six other rancherias "sitas a la orillas del rio por la parte de la sierra.
To summarize the rancherias mentioned: Garces saw four villages on the Kern in territory of the Paleuyami or Yauelmani (nos.
Several rancherias belonging to this tribe are mentioned as being on the east side of the bay.
But there in their rancherias among the mountains, very rarely did they wear it; for the devil had persuaded them that nothing good could happen to them if they had those beads with them.
The smallrancherias of Cupiat and Laji which may be considered as small suburbs or barrios of Hijo and Matiao respectively have absolutely no importance.
The worst Moros are those of Jolo and some rancherias of the coasts of Basilan called Samal Laut (see color no.
The rancherias of Indians near this Mission, all within eight or ten miles of Santa Cruz, .
The Kanimares had rancherias at Santa Rosa, Petaluma, or Pataloma, and up to Russian river.
Tapo and Simi wererancherias on the present Noriega rancho of Simi.
Some of these were from rancherias of the valleys east of the range on the coast.
The Sakhones had rancheriasnear Monterey 'on the ranchos now known as Loucitta, Tarro, National Buena Esperanza, Buena Vista, and lands of that vicinity.
Besides the Pome Pomos there are two or three other little rancherias in Potter Valley, each with a different name; and the whole body of them are called Ballo Ki Pomos (Oat Valley People).
On the return journey, Crespi traversed the valley from Walnut Creek to Dublin, Pleasanton, and near Niles, and noted a scattering of rancherias at least as far as Pleasanton.
Actually, therefore, he saw no indigenous heathen, and could find traces of no more than would inhabit three rancherias of dubious size.
In two of the rancherias the Gentiles almost took up arms.
With reference to numbers of natives it should be remembered that Crespi had seen Indian rancherias ranging in size from insignificant to the semi-cities of the Santa Barbara Channel.
The 11th he fell upon the seven rancherias to gather up the 21 Christians who were delivered by the chiefs.
Amador says the rancherias "will be about 10 leagues from the mission and are opposite the beach.
On the north and west it has 5 rancherias which are still unconverted.
The rancherias which were seen near Antioch would therefore be more profitably considered in a survey of the valley tribes than in one of the East Bay and adjacent coast ranges.
Indeed, the correspondence between archaeological sites and the occurrence of rancherias in early colonial times is remarkably close.
There were three rancherias close together, and with the destruction of this one, the inhabitants of the others fled.
The only indication of size for the Sacalanes is the mention of 50 men and women who participated in the defense of the first rancheria; The other two rancherias had been deserted.
The next day there were present in council about one hundred Indians, including the captains of all the rancherias and the old chief Cabezon.
That, going through the oak park and leaving on the left hand the tule swamps, there is a region of fresh-water lakes so spaced that there are pockets of solid ground in which are encountered rancheriasinhabited by Gentiles.
It is probable that the rancherias here described, and indeed the whole day's journey, was in the area just west of the present city of Stockton.
In my opinion, these rancherias are the most adequate to the natural uncleanliness of the Indians, as the families often renew them, burning the old ones, and immediately building others with the greatest facility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rancherias" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
