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 Culture-> Lodges: Wigwams are domed shelters     
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:57:46 PDT (18333 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (13628 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (12765 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (11871 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (5883 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (25337 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (10905 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (11351 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (8688 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (9257 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (6958 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (7646 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (4347 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PDT (26738 reads)



Indian Lodges

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 PST (2243 reads)



Literature & Legends

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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