What type of shelter did Southeast Indians have?

Answer 1

• Several sorts of houses were erected throughout the Eastern Woodlands. The most popular was likely the wigwam, a bark-covered structure and the longhouse, home to several families. Some southeast tribes lived in cold-weather houses of clay applied to an armature of poles, complete with a cone or round roof. The Seminoles of Florida used a chikee, a shelter without walls thatched with the palmetto tree's fan-shaped leaves.

Answer 2

The Eastern Woodland peoples lived in the forests from New York down into Georgia. There were many different tribes each with their own housing needs. They lived with the trees, so poles and bark strips were easy to come by:

• Iroquois Nation (New York) - wigwams and longhouses
• Cherokee (TN, NC, GA) - large villages of wattle and daub houses.
• Mound Builders (Illinois) - flat-topped or conical mounds around and on top of which wood houses would be built.

They did NOT live in teepees.

Answer 3

The Southeast Indians were part of the Woodland tribes and lived in 3 zones - coastal plain, Piedmont and the Southern Appalachian mountains. Most were farmers and hunter/gatherers and lived in fairly permanent structures. Specific housing materials depended on what was available in the area, but most took the form of Wattle & Daub houses (plaster & thatch) and chickees (thatch roof over open area where there was a raised platform to keep the people dry).

Answer 4

The Wea Indians would use woven reeds to build their shelters. They would live in villages that were small oval houses.

Answer 5

teepees

The Chippewas used to live in Tepees many years ago, today they live in homes like yours or mine.

Answer 6

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