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Michigan’s F irst Pe  ple Hur  n

Michigan’s F irst Pe  ple Hur  n. BY:  Thu-Anh . Shelter. Longhouses are Native American homes used by the Iroquois tribes and some of their Algonquian neighbors. They built simarly to wigwams , with pole frames and elm bark covering.

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Michigan’s F irst Pe  ple Hur  n

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  1. Michigan’s First PepleHurn BY:  Thu-Anh 

  2. Shelter • Longhouses are Native American homes used by the Iroquois tribes and some of their Algonquian neighbors. • They built simarly to wigwams , with pole frames and elm bark covering. • The main difference is that longhouses are much larger than wigwams. Longhouses a could be 200 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 20 feet high. • inside the long house, raised platforms created a second story, which was used for sleeping space.

  3. Iroquois men some times built wigwams for themselves when they were going on hunting trips, but women might live in the same longhouse their whole life. • The Iroquois were farming people who lived in permanent villages. • Along house is large and takes a long time to build and decorate. • Mats and wood screens divided the longhouse into separate rooms. • Each longhouse housed an entire clan , as many as 60 people. Long houses are good homes for people who intend to stay a long time in the same place for a long time. Shelter(Continue)

  4. Natural Recourses • The women painted pots and pans. • They used sharp carving wood to make totem poles. • The spear points were made from thinned steel. • Huron women made stick baskets.

  5. The stoves were huge boulders with a hole in the front. They then put mud all over. • Everyone (even kids) helped make the birch bark canoes. • Huron men made wood clubs with sharp teeth for spikes. The teeth were usually bear teeth. • Men put caribou skin over their backs to hunt the caribou. Natural Recourses (Continue)

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