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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.
Longhouses varied in size from 15 to 150 feet long and 15 to 25 feet in breadth. [202] Longhouses were usually built of layers of elm bark on a frame of rafters and standing logs raised upright. [202] In 1653, Dutch official and landowner Adriaen van der Donck described a Mohawk longhouse in his Description of New Netherland:
Kanata Village was a tourist attraction in Brantford, Ontario made by the Pine Tree Native Centre. [1] It was an attraction meant to give “The 17th century Iroquois experience.” [2] There is a longhouse and while it was active, there were various demonstrations of 17th century Iroquois life such as “making fire by friction, tanning hides, pounding corn, and playing First Nations games ...
The villages usually were 2 hectares (4.9 acres) to 3.25 hectares (8.0 acres) in area. Inside the palisades the St. Lawrence people lived in longhouses, typical of other neighboring Iroquoian peoples. The longhouses were 18 metres (59 ft) to 41 metres (135 ft) in length and each housed several families. [15]
The longhouse had a 3-metre-wide (9.8 ft) central aisle and 2-metre-wide (6.6 ft) compartments, about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) long, down each side. The end compartments were usually used for storage. Hearths were spaced about 6 to 7 metres (20 to 23 ft) apart down the aisle, with smoke holes in the roof. Two families shared each hearth.
During the grand opening, admission for visitors will be free on Sept. 9-10. With parking for 250 cars, the LongHouse visitor center will serve as the new entrance to the arboretum.
Pre-contact distribution of Iroquoian languages. The Iroquoian peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples from eastern North America.Their traditional territories, often referred to by scholars as Iroquoia, [1] stretch from the mouth of the St. Lawrence River in the north, to modern-day North Carolina in the south.
Hochelaga was a settlement containing a great number of longhouses, and remains of longhouses have been found on the Boucherville Islands south of Montreal. I will therefore add Quebec to New York and Ontario as a region in which longhouses were built. Mattyleg 21:52, 5 January 2011 (UTC)