Culture-> Lodges: Wigwams are domed shelters
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:57:46 CDT (25394 reads)

A favorite of the Algonquin speaking tribes of the northeast was the wigwam.

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Culture-> Lodges: Indian Housing - Wickiups
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:55:27 CDT (16695 reads)

Wickiups were a simpler form of a wigwam.

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Culture-> Lodges: Wattle and Daub Indian Houses
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:53:28 CDT (16760 reads)

Wattle and Daub was a type of construction using a frame work of poles intertwined with branches and vines covered with mud.

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Culture-> Lodges: Tipis are cone shaped tents
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:51:38 CDT (15019 reads)

A tipi is a frame work of poles covered with hides.

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Culture-> Lodges: Pueblos are the apartment like buildings
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:49:31 CDT (7943 reads)

They were made from a frame of logs covered with adobe, a clay mixture which was allowed to dry in the sun.

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Culture-> Lodges: Some Pacific Northwest coast indians lived in plank houses
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:47:17 CDT (34922 reads)

Plank houses are square or rectangle shaped dwellings made by the Native Americans living on the Pacific Northwest coast.

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Culture-> Lodges: Pithouses are semisubterranean dwellings
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:44:47 CDT (14935 reads)

Pithouses were used by most Plateau, some far north, as well as some California tribes.

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Culture-> Lodges: Igloos were not year around homes
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:42:40 CDT (14686 reads)

Igloos are dome shaped dwellings that are made from packed snow cut into blocks with a large knife.

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Culture-> Lodges: .Hogans of the Apache and Navajo
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:40:25 CDT (10498 reads)

Hogans were made with a frame of logs and sticks and usually covered with mud.

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Culture-> Lodges: Earth lodges are dome shaped dwellings
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:38:14 CDT (11972 reads)

Earth lodges are dome shaped dwellings similar to pithouses but generally much larger

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Culture-> Lodges: The Longhouse
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:36:23 CDT (8857 reads)

Many Native Americans lived in homes that were long enough to house several families.

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Culture-> Lodges: The Caddo and the Wichita built grass homes
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:34:26 CDT (9950 reads)

The long grass that grew on the Midwest and southern plains was used to make grass houses.

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Culture-> Lodges: Lean-to shelters were used as temporary shelters
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:30:58 CDT (6034 reads)

Lean To's were temporary shelters made from brush, leaves and twigs covering sloping single pitched roofs.

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Culture-> Lodges: Index of Native American Homes
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 20:35:24 CDT (32872 reads)

Native American Homes

Native Americans lived in a variety of homes depending on what area or region that they lived in. Many Native American groups also had more than one home. The Navajo for instance, who lived in the desert Southwest, were sheep herders and each family had several homes within their land to stay in as the sheep moved about over their land which could cover several miles. Other Native American groups had winter and summer homes.

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Culture-> Lodges: The Hooghan of First Man
Posted on Monday, January 14 @ 23:57:56 CST (2467 reads)

Source: Navajo Legend

The construction of the conical hooghan is based upon the description of the hooghan of First Man related in the Origin Myth as told in Blessing Way [Hózhójí].

In this home, the poles were made of jewels, white shell [yoogaii], abalone [diichii], turquoise [doot'izhii] and jet [bááshzhinii].

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