Plains Native Americans

Their Houses

By Amber

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By Amber

� Plank houses are made of long, flat planks of cedar wood lashed to a wooden frame.

� Plank houses are good houses for people in cold climates with lots of tall trees.

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cold climates with lots of tall trees.� Most Native Americans who live in the far

northern forests must migrate regularly to follow caribou herds and other game, so plank houses aren't a good choice for them. Only coastal tribes, who make their living by fishing, made houses like these.

� Plank houses are Native American homes used by tribes of the Northwest Coast (from northern California all the way up to Alaska.)

� Native American plank houses look rather similar to old European houses, but the Indians

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Native American plank houses look rather similar to old European houses, but the Indians didn't learn to build them from Europeans--this style of house was used on the Northwest Coast long before Europeans arrived.

Wigwams (or wetus) are Native American houses used by Algonquian Indians in the woodland regions. Wigwam is the word for "house" in the Abenaki tribe, and wetu is the word for "house" in the Wampanoag tribe. Sometimes they are also known as birchbark houses. Wigwams are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. Wigwams are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. Once the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of wood are wrapped

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the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of wood are wrapped around the wigwam to hold the bark in place. Wigwams are good houses for people who stay in the same place for months at a time. Most Algonquian Indians lived together in settled villages during the farming season, but during the winter, each family group would move to their own hunting camp. Wigwams are not portable, but they are small and easy to build. Woodland Indian families could build new wigwams every year when they set up their winter camps.

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By Enrique

The Long-houseby Helen

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• The longhouses were one of the types of houses that were used in the eastern woodlands area of North America by the Iroquois.

• They would be lived in by more than one family at a time. Each of these families would have their own section within the house and their own hearth.

• The longhouses were huge but they were well built using wooden poles fastened with leather straps. They didn’t have nails. Bark or hides were then used to form the walls.

• The roof would have holes in for the smoke from the fires to be vented from. You can see them in the picture.

The Caddo Grass Houses

The Caddo grass houses were made of ..... Well, grass.The grass was thatched together in tight bundles and strapped to the frame of the house.The grass will keep out the bad weather but let circulated air in

Matthew Robbins, Year 7 Lions 15/3/11

Constructing the Caddo grass houses

Who lived there

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Who lived there

The people who lived in and built these houses where called Caddo's. They lived in North East Texas. The tribes of the area referred to each other as ‘Taysha’ (friends), the name that eventually became Texas.

The Caddo tribe lived with an abundant food supply and a dense population (largely based on agriculture). The Caddo's brought large family housing traditions and expertise in hunting with bows and arrows.

This is a picture of a Caddo grass house

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� The Native Americans used tepees to keep warm and dry during the winter, and cool and dry during the summer. �The occupants cooked outside the hut to not get smoke in their eyes. They used them to camp on the central plains.� I guess this was the design of tent that made the famous, travelling

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that made the famous, travelling circus tents like the ones they use in Mosco only a hundred times bigger. �It is made of buffalo hide fastened around very long wooden poles, designed in a cone shape. Tepees were warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Some were quite large. They could hold 30 or 40 people comfortably.

By Nic

The houses of the native Americans

By Mohamed

There are 3 different houses that I’m going to show u about which one of them are the caddow grass house People have lived in East Texas for about 12,000 years Paleo-Indians lived in the region from about 9000-6000 BCE

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Archaic culture followed from about 6000-200 BCE - hunters who used "atlatls“ About 200 AD revolutionary ideas began filtering into East Texas from more advanced cultures

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Apache wickiup 1880

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A wigwam or wickiup is a domed single-room. It is made of stone,wood and clay.

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Wikiiup means A frame hut covered with matting, as of bark or brush, used by nomadic Native Americans of North America.

The wickiup is found among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho

Wigwams by Oliver• Wigwams (or wetus) are Native American houses

used by Algonquian Indians in the woodland regions. Wigwam is the word for "house" in the Abenaki tribe, and wetu is the word for "house" in the Wampanoag tribe.

• Sometimes they are also known as birchbark houses. Wigwams are small houses, usually 8-10 feet tall. Wigwams are made of wooden frames which are covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or

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covered with woven mats and sheets of birchbark. The frame can be shaped like a dome, like a cone, or like a rectangle with an arched roof. Once the birchbark is in place, ropes or strips of wood are wrapped around the wigwam to hold the bark in place. Here are some pictures of a woman building a wigwam.

Native American HousingA wigwam was a round house and the Native Americans would build it using tree logs, then covering it with bark. The would spread rugs on the floor and on the walls. They would also put animal skins on the walls too. Wigwams usually

Wigwams by Rebekah

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walls too. Wigwams usually take longer than tipis to put up because a wigwam has more parts to it like the tree logs were as the tipi only needs a few sticks and cloth to put it up. Wigwams are strong houses because they can hold up against most bad weather.

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usually made from white birch or alder trees that were small enough to bend, rope that had

been made by braiding together thin strips of bark, and sheets of bark to cover

the frame.Some Huron longhouses had

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Some Huron longhouses had holes cut in the top of the roof, which were also covered with either bark or hides to protect the inside from the rain or

snow. Although similar to the Haida house, the longhouse did not need a smoke hole because there were enough small openings between the poles to let the smoke out.

By Serena

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