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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. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.

  3. Longhouse - Wikipedia

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    There are dozens of pre-1600 longhouses remaining on Exmoor and the surrounding area. [6] Some can be dated using dendrochronology to before 1400, but sites can be much older and have names with a Saxon origin. Longhouses on Exmoor are typically a single-story building, one room deep, laid out as two crucked bays a cross passage and two crucked ...

  4. Iroquois - Wikipedia

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    Longhouses varied in size from 15 to 150 feet long and 15 to 25 feet in breadth. [199] Longhouses were usually built of layers of elm bark on a frame of rafters and standing logs raised upright. [199] In 1653, Dutch official and landowner Adriaen van der Donck described a Mohawk longhouse in his Description of New Netherland:

  5. Covenant Chain - Wikipedia

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    The Covenant Chain is embodied in the Two Row Wampum of the Iroquois, known as the people of the longhouse - Haudenosaunee. It was based in agreements negotiated between Dutch settlers in New Netherland (present-day New York) and the Five Nations of the Iroquois (or Haudenosaunee) early in the 17th century. Their emphasis was on trade with the ...

  6. Indigenous architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The walls of these longhouses were made from stacked planks of cedar wood, which were cut using beaver teeth and stone axes. [5] 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.

  7. Handsome Lake - Wikipedia

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    Handsome Lake, a leader and prophet, played a major role in reviving traditional religion among the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), or Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. He preached a message that combined traditional Haudenosaunee religious beliefs with a revised code meant to revive traditional consciousness to the Haudenosaunee after ...

  8. Kanata Village - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Iroquoian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Ontario Iroquois stage is divided into chronological Uren and Middleport substages, [9] which are sometimes termed as cultures. [10] Wright controversially attributed the increase in homogeneity to a "conquest theory", whereby the Pickering culture became dominant over the Glen Meyer and the former became the predecessor of the later ...

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