Native American Homes

Last week we built Native American homes to help us learn more about the different regions of Native Americans. Here are some pictures and what some students had to say about building the homes:

Eastern Woodlands-Longhouse

Plains- Teepee and Earthlodge

We are the plain people  and we built tepees and earth loge. And we built a tepee made out  of couth sticks sand clay . The first thing we did was we put the clay down  on the paper and put the sticks on the paper so it will and hold it up. And we put clay around the tepee so it will keep the sticks from falling down. Then we panted the tepee so it will look like it has fur on it.

Then we did the Earth Loge and it took a long time so then we started off with the fence it took along time to  build the fence a bunch of sticks so then we put tape on fence to hold it up. Then we some plates  to make a dome shape .And then we had to put clay down so it will stick down to the plates  then we put some sand on it because it had sand on it.
By: Kyle

Great Basin- Hogan

My group  Built the Hogan.  from the great basin . We used  a little bit of bark. The straw for the chimney and clay. We used it for fire, spares ,and smoke, 2 little ponds, blood  (from the bear that they hunted),2 bushes. We used tooth picks. the  men with the guns. We used sand and we covered it with play dough. We built spares and berries.   
By: Edward and Nate

Pacific Northwest- Plankhouse

Southwest- Pueblo