Ranchería
... The Columbia Encyclopedia describes it as "a type of communal settlement formerly characteristic of the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico, and of various small Native American groups of the SW United States, especially in California ... These clusters of dwellings were less permanent than the pueblos (see Pueblo) but more so than the camps of the migratory Native Americans."The term could be applied to the settlements of the California Mission Indians beyond the Spanish missions, such as Maugna of the Tongva people ...