The Cachil DeHe Band of Wintun Native Americans of the Colusa Native Americans Community of the Colusa Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Wintun Native Americans from central California .
12-616: The tribe's reservation is the Colusa Rancheria , also known as the Cachildehe Rancheria . The ranchería is located in Colusa County, California and was founded in 1907. The average elevation is 59 feet (18 m ), and the ranchería is 573 acres (2.32 km) large. 273 acres (1.10 km) are in federal trust and 300 acres (1.2 km) are owned privately by the tribe. Population is approximately 77. The Colusa Indian Colony
24-450: A particular California institution. A small area of land was set aside around an Indian settlement to create a ranchería. Some rancherías developed from small communities of Indians formed on the outskirts of American settlements who were fleeing Americans or avoiding removal to the reservations. […] With the passage of Public Law 83-280 in the mid-1950s, terminating federal supervision and control over California tribes, some 40 rancherías lost
36-630: Is governed by a democratically elected tribal council. They are headquartered in Colusa, California , and their current tribal chairperson is Wayne Mitchum. Traditionally, the tribe spoke the Wintun/Patwin language, a Wintuan language of the Penutian language family . The Colusa Indian Community Council published a language book and are working on language CDs and DVDs to help foster language preservation. The traditional language spoken by Wintun (Patwin) people
48-417: 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
60-552: The Tlingit portion of Sitka, Alaska . Rancherie A rancherie is a First Nations residential area of an Indian reserve in colloquial English throughout the Canadian province of British Columbia . Originating in an adaptation of ranchería , 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
72-503: 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. Historically the term could also be used for certain non-aboriginal (but also non-white, mostly) communities, most notably the Kanaka Rancherie on Vancouver 's Lost Lagoon , which
84-460: The residential area of an Indian reserve . It especially means the historical residential area, as opposed to newer subdivisions. It was further extended to refer to other non-white residential communities, such as the Kanaka Rancherie in early Vancouver , British Columbia , which came to house the city's Kanaka (Hawaiian) residents. In an even more truncated form, the Ranche was used to refer to
96-663: The right to certain federal programs, and their lands no longer had the protection of federal status. In 1983, a lawsuit resulted in restoring federal recognition to 17 rancherías, with others still waiting for the reversal of their termination . The word migrated north with the 49ers to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in an adapted form, " rancherie " . It survives in British Columbia as a somewhat archaic but still commonly used word, in rural areas and small towns, as well as in general First Nations English usage, meaning
108-678: The settlements of the California Mission Indians beyond the Spanish missions , such as Maugna of the Tongva people. 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 . It says: The Spanish term for small Indian settlements. Rancherías are
120-506: 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 . The Columbia Encyclopedia describes it as: The term could be applied to
132-599: The tribe started to build a traditional roundhouse and refurbished it in 1993. The ranchería is served by the Colusa Unified School District . 39°15′01″N 122°01′33″W / 39.25028°N 122.02583°W / 39.25028; -122.02583 Rancher%C3%ADa 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
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#1733085857718144-586: Was not Wintu, but Patwin or Wintun. Wintu was a Penutian language spoken by the Wintu people of lands north of Cottonwood Creek in the area of Redding, California. The tribe owns and operates the Colusa Casino Resort, Table 45 (casual dining), 37 Seventy (fine dining), and Jack's Place (bar), all located inside Colusa Casino Resort. The Cachil Dehe Band of Wintun Indians, with 45 original members, ratified their constitution and by-laws on November 23, 1941. In 1969
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