Native American Housing

Day 3Br: Amanda Brown

Wigwam

• Used by the Algonquin Indians.

• Ideal for people staying in the same place for months at a time.

• AKA birchbark houses• Usually about 8-10 feet

tall• Shaped like a dome

Tepee

• Used by the Plain Indians

• Cone shaped wooden frame with a covering buffalo hide.

• Designed to set up and break down easily.

• Good for people always on the move.

Longhouse• Good homes for people intending to stay a long

time• Range from up to 150 ft long, 20 ft wide, & 20 ft

high• Housed as many as 60 people.

Grass House• Resemble Wigwams but

made with different material.

• Large buildings sometimes up to 40 feet tall.

• Good homes for people in warm climates.

Chickee• Used primarily in

Florida by the Seminole Indians.

• No walls• Good homes for a hot

and swampy climate.• The long posts kept the

house from sinking into marshy Earth.

Adobe• AKA Pueblos• Used by the Pueblo

Indians of the Southwest.

• Made of clay and straw baked together to make hard bricks.

• Can contain dozens of individual units inside.