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  2. Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people Interior of a longhouse with Chief Powhatan (detail of John Smith map, 1612). Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America.

  3. Indigenous architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Native American Student Center at Oregon State University is another example of contemporary longhouse construction, with its design symbolizing the close-knit community aspects of longhouse living. While modern longhouses often serve as spaces for large groups, they are also built on a smaller scale.

  4. Hogan - Wikipedia

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    The preference of hogan construction and use is still very popular among the Navajos, although the use of it as a home shelter dwindled through the 1900s, due mainly to the requirement by many Navajos to acquire homes built through government and lender funding – which largely ignored the hogan-style and cultural needs of a community – in preference for HUD-standardized construction.

  5. Plank house - Wikipedia

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    Canadian anthropologist Wilson Duff quotes Simon Fraser, who (upon observation of the Coast Salish homes on the banks of the now-named Fraser River) wrote in his 1800 journal; "as an excellent house 46 × 32 and constructed like American frame houses; the planks are three to 4 inches thick, each plank overlapping the adjoining one a couple of inches; the post, which is very strong and crudely ...

  6. Ancestral Puebloan dwellings - Wikipedia

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    The dwellings of the Pueblo peoples are located throughout the American Southwest and north central Mexico. The American states of New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona all have evidence of Pueblo peoples' dwellings; the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora do as well.

  7. A Native American photographer took powerful portraits of ...

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    Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.

  8. Chickee - Wikipedia

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    Mother and children at a camp on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, 1949 An Indian camp with a sleep chickee, cooking chickee, and eating chickee. Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides.

  9. How Native American police are fighting the crisis of missing ...

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    Factors ranging from poverty and a history of colonial oppression make Native American people disproportionately at risk of going missing. American Indian women and girls make up 15% of Minnesota ...