USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Eastern Woodlands Indians relied mainly on trees to make their homes, using trunks and branches to frame the buildings and bark for covering. They wove reeds into mats for walls and floors. This section contains five models of dwellings built by groups that lived in different climates.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eastern Woodland Native Americans commonly lived in wigwams or wickiups. The frame was made of willow saplings. The frame was also covered with woven cattail mats or bark.

Detailed explanation-3: -A longhouse was the basic house type of pre-contact northern Iroquoian-speaking peoples, such as the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Petun and Neutral. The longhouse sheltered a number of families related through the female line.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tribes in the south lived in wattle and daub houses (wooden framed houses covered with reed mats and plaster). The Eastern Woodlands Indians built walls and fences around villages for protection.

Detailed explanation-5: -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. They had holes in the roof to allow for the smoke from fires to escape and a door at each end.