Native American Homes

A favorite of the Algonquin speaking tribes of the northeast was the wigwam.

Wickiups were a simpler form of a wigwam.

Wattle and Daub was a type of construction using a frame work of poles intertwined with branches and vines covered with mud.

A tipi is a frame work of poles covered with hides.

They were made from a frame of logs covered with adobe, a clay mixture which was allowed to dry in the sun.

Plank houses are square or rectangle shaped dwellings made by the Native Americans living on the Pacific Northwest coast.

Pithouses were used by most Plateau, some far north, as well as some California tribes.

Igloos are dome shaped dwellings that are made from packed snow cut into blocks with a large knife.

Earth lodges are dome shaped dwellings similar to pithouses but generally much larger

Many Native Americans lived in homes that were long enough to house several families.

The long grass that grew on the Midwest and southern plains was used to make grass houses.

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

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 […]