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Native American History for Kids: The Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes

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Kids learn about Native American Indian teepee, longhouse, and pueblo homes and dwellings in the United States.

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http://www.ducksters.com/history/native_american_teepee_longhouse_pueblo.php

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Native American History for Kids: The Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes

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Kids learn about Native American Indian teepee, longhouse, and pueblo homes and dwellings in the United States.

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Native American History for Kids: The Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes

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Kids learn about Native American Indian teepee, longhouse, and pueblo homes and dwellings in the United States.

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The wood was made of bark

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arrows,blowguns,and snares for hunting.Women made bark baskets for gathering,storing,and cooking foods.Since the bark basket couldn't be put over a fire, the women put hot rocks into the basket.The heat from the rocks cooked the food.  

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arrows,blowguns,and snares for hunting.Women made bark baskets for gathering,storing,and cooking foods.Since the bark basket couldn't be put over a fire, the women put hot rocks into the basket.The heat from the rocks cooked the food.  

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Native American History for Kids: The Teepee, Longhouse, and Pueblo Homes

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Kids learn about Native American Indian teepee, longhouse, and pueblo homes and dwellings in the United States.

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what wood was the best for making long houses and why did they make long houses why not just normal houses

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what were the canes made out of (what type of wood if they used wood anyway)

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Wampum beads were very  valuable to the eastern woodland Indians.They were made from conch shells and clam shells.They would string them in certain patterns to record important messages or events. 

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Wampum beads were very  valuable to the eastern woodland Indians.They were made from conch shells and clam shells.They would string them in certain patterns to record important messages or events. 

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joshua

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They used canoes to travel on water. They walked to travel on land.

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They used canoes to travel on water. They walked to travel on land.

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they traveled by water during the summer/ wow-jeff

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-bear
-fish
-rabbit
-corn

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they stopped using long houses because the europeans came and changed there life       

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they stopped using long houses because the europeans came and changed there life       

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style -keigan: )

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Picture of a Powhatan Longhouse Village

Discover interesting facts and information about the Longhouse.

What was a Longhouse?
A Longhouse was a typical structure used as a house by most of the Northeast Woodland tribes who made them their homes. Longhouses are also referred to as Birchbark Houses in reference to the material the tribes used to cover the framework of their houses. Learn about the structure and the interior of the Longhouse with pictures and images together with facts and information about the tribes who used them, including the famous Iroquois tribe.

Native American Houses

Native Indian Tribes Index

The Longhouse - People of the Longhouse
The Longhouse (or Birch Bark House) was a long, narrow house that was traditionally built by the American Native Indians of the Northeast Woodlands. The main tribes who used the longhouse were those belonging to the powerful Iroquois Confederacy which included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people. The men of the tribes were hunters and fishers whilst the women raised corn, beans, squash and tobacco.

The Iroquois were also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse". The term 'longhouse' referred to the construction of their dwellings and their communal lifestyle. Members of the same clan shared a longhouse.

Picture of an Iroquois Longhouse

Inter-tribal warfare was harsh and frequent so that people of many of the tribes lived in longhouse villages which were fortified by fencing (palisades) and reinforced with mud. The Iroquois and many other Tribes in the Northeast lived in villages surrounded by a fortified fence called a palisade including the tribes belonging to the Longhouse Villages
Powhatan Confederacy. The densely populated, longhouse villages served the Woodland tribes well for hundreds of years but living in close proximity to each other made the tribes vulnerable to European epidemics. Other tribes who lived in Longhouses included the Abenaki, Fox (Meskwaki) , Huron (Wyandot) , Lenape (Delaware) , , Mohican , Narragansett, Sauk (Sac) , Pennacook , Pequot Powhatan and the Wampanoag.

Susquehannock Fort of Longhouses
(this tribe were enemies of the Iroquois)
Algonkin Village of Pomeiock,
on Albemarle Sound, in 1585

Description of the Longhouse - House Exterior
Longhouses were the names given to the permanent houses built by the Iroquois. The Longhouses were built up to 200 feet long, 20 feet wide and 20 feet high. The frames of the longhouses were made with poles which were covered with bark that was cut into rectangular slabs. A variety of different trees were used to build a longhouse, depending on the tree's strength, flexibility and resistance to decay. The roof of a typical Iroquois longhouse was rounded rather than peaked. There were two doors for the entire building, one at each end. Separate rooms were created in longhouses by using wooden screens and mats. Through the house from doorway to doorway ran a central passage: the space on either side of this was divided by partitions of skins into a series of stalls, each of which was occupied by a family. A series of fires were placed in the central passage for heating, cooking, and light, the smoke escaped from a hole left in the roof above it. Some longhouses had 2 storeys. A raised platform created the top storey of the longhouse which was used for sleeping or storage. A large house of this kind might have five or even more hearths, and would be occupied by twenty or more families. The symbol of the family or clan was placed on the exterior of the longhouse building.

Longhouse

Longhouse - Facts about Native American Homes for kids

Native American homes and shelters

Interesting Facts and information about Long house

Long house homework resource about Native American longhouse for kids, students and teachers

Longhouse Interior
A Longhouse would have been very dark and smoky inside as there were no windows. Each family lived in a compartment. Above the compartment was a storage shelf for essential items such as clothing, blankets, mats, pots, tools and weapons A large, deep storage pit, lined with bark and grass with a bark mat lid, was was dug inside the longhouse and used to store food. Dried food was hung from the rafters. The sources of light were the smoke holes in the roof of the longhouse, from the light of the fire and during the summer there would have been light from the doors at either end of the longhouse. During the winter the doors would have been covered with animal hides to keep the cold and animals out. Indian houses, such as the longhouse, contained little or no furniture. Some blankets or skins served as a bed and there were no tables or chairs.

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Visit this site for facts and info on the Longhouse. Native American Indian houses and homes including the Longhouse. The Longhouse, a Native American Indian house.

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Thanks :)

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bison are buffalo

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they hunted
. bear
. moose
.bison

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bisons are buffalo its just another term

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bisons are buffalo its just another term

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they used gopher wood they called it to make the long houses

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what are bisons??

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why did they stop useing      long houes? 

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why did they stop useing      long houes? 

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ittens, special coats and special hats.

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how much wood would it take to make a long house

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Why where they Fighting in the first place?

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the coastal algonquins ate a lot of seafood, such as oysters, clams, mussels and lobsters

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the coastal algonquins ate a lot of seafood, such as oysters, clams, mussels and lobsters

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-walker

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they made lots of arrowheads i'm pretty sure it was 145 a day

thats crazy!!! ; )

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white deer are  the most important animals to hunt

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white deer are  the most important animals to hunt

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they used birch wood or acacia to build long houses or oak wood

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robes,leggings, moccasins,

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thats cool!

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it took nearly a month to build a longhouse

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they ate beavers, raccoons, rabbits, corn, beans and berries

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they ate beavers, raccoons, rabbits, corn, beans and berries

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-walker

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the people ate moose, bear,  bison, corn, beans and berries.

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the people ate moose, bear,  bison, corn, beans and berries.

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bear
moose
bison
fish
beavers
raccoons
rabbits
corn
beans
berries

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they ate Eels[COOL!]

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woodlands had a lot of wood

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Hawk bear and turtle

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they eat seals,squirrels, and beavers

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apperntaly europeans kill heratige and tradition

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the eldest woman/s of the long house were the masters!!!

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-raccoons
- bears
-squirrels
- beavers
-moose
-seals
-caribou
-whales

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Woodland tribes lived in wigwams and longhouses.
Wigwams are round, wooden buildings covered in bark.
wigwams were only single family houses, but longhouses could hold several related families

-Greg

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how long did it take to make the log houses

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12-14 weeks (hand crafted)
-Madison

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longhouse building

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Why did they team up

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how long would it take to build an average sized long house?

Rasuke wat u doing here?
-Ronnie XD

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-ALICIA

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they uesd knives

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 The Family's Names are Animals, This are Called Clans The Animals are The Eagle, Bear and The Turtles!

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 The Family's Names are Animals, This are Called Clans The Animals are The Eagle, Bear and The Turtles!

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-Grace

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why did they change their lives so much

i think t was because the europeans destroyed them (when the had war)

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how did they cut down so many trees so fast ?

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when did they stop living in long houses

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when did they stop living in long houses

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they lived in them until the europeans came and destroyed them (Im pretty pretty sure)
-Madison

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what kind of wood did they use for there "long houses"

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how long did it take to build a long house 

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how long did it take to build a long house 

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why did they cut down so many trees that might kill the air soooooo sad