FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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The clan build another house for them on the outside of the village.
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Their children built a house for them.
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The clan made the longhouse longer by adding more bent saplings to the frame and elm bark slabs to the roof.
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The invented bricks, and created a new type of home.
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Detailed explanation-1: -This is the opposite of most European societies, in which new wives would join their husbands’ families. When a new Iroquois husband joined his wife’s family, the clan simply made the longhouse longer by adding more bent saplings to the frame and elm bark slabs to the roof.
Detailed explanation-2: -The design of the longhouse reflected the social organization of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture, 300-500 years ago. Its architecture and construction are adapted to the raw materials available to the Haudenosaunee in their immediate surroundings, and to the tools and technology in their possession.
Detailed explanation-3: -Native American Longhouse Another name for the Iroquois was Haudenosaunee which meant “People of the Longhouses". Longhouses were permanent homes built from wood and bark. They get their name because they were built in the shape of a long rectangle. Usually they were around 80 feet long and 18 feet wide.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the winter, the longhouse was central to Iroquoian community life. It was where people assembled to tell stories, conduct sacred ceremonies and socialize. There were fewer people around the longhouse during the summer because villagers were away tending to their crops.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee or “People of the Longhouses") who resided in the Northeastern United States as well as Eastern Canada (Ontario and Quebec) built and inhabited longhouses. These were sometimes more than 75 m (246 ft) in length but generally around 5 to 7 m (16 to 23 ft) wide.