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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. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.
A longhouse or long house is a ... of six to twelve longhouses; they were home to large extended families and kin. ... longhouses inhabited by the Iroquois were wood ...
The longhouses had low, pitched roofs to efficiently disperse heat and featured a single door at each end. [9] Chiefs were responsible for assigning families to different sections of the longhouse. When the owner of a longhouse died, the house was either incinerated or passed on to a new family. [5]
A traditional Iroquois longhouse. Further south, in what is today Southern Ontario and Quebec the Iroquois society lived in permanent agricultural settlements holding several hundred to several thousand people. The standard form of housing was the long house. These were large structures, several times longer than they were wide holding a large ...
' people who are building the longhouse ') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League , and later as the Iroquois Confederacy , while the English simply called them the "Five Nations".
Ganondagan, site of a major 17th-century Seneca village, has a reconstructed Seneca longhouse and a small visitors center. The original town site covered nine acres, with dwellings and stores, fields, and areas for livestock. This area was the location of nearly 150 longhouses, as well as the burial grounds of the people.
The Gathering Place, an event space with a capacity of 194, will be available for rental at the LongHouse Visitor Center at the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.
The Mantle Site was enclosed by a three-row wooden fort-like structure surrounding 95 longhouses, of which at least 50 were occupied at any one time. Each longhouse was approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, 20 feet (6.1 m) high; lengths varied from 40 feet (12 m) to 160 feet (49 m), with a typical length of 100 feet (30 m).