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 Television: Navajo inventor and family to get 'Makeover' home     
Posted on Tuesday, April 17 @ 20:28:52 CDT (6611 reads)



Indian Lodges



Garrett Yazzie, a Navajo Nation teenager who invented a solar heater to power his Pinon home at 13, was to receive a new home this weekend, courtesy of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

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 Culture-> Lodges: Wigwams are domed shelters     
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 21:57:46 CDT (34240 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 CDT (21742 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 CDT (23274 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 CDT (21016 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 CDT (9770 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 CDT (52886 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 CDT (19607 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 CDT (18771 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 CDT (12844 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 CDT (16159 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 CDT (13542 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 CDT (13728 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 CDT (8392 reads)



Indian Lodges

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

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 TNB->Seminole Tribe: Seminole Homes are called chickees     
Posted on Friday, September 23 @ 20:41:14 CDT (60371 reads)



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Seminole Indians lived in a home called a Chickee.

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