LONGHOUSES

Lets learn more about the longhouses!

• Longhouses are houses made out of wood and sticks and lots of other things in nature.

• Up to 20-30 families could live in a longhouse. That would be almost every family in your class their mom dad and siblings.

• The Native Americans lived in longhouses in the eastern woodlands.

This is what they looked like.

What did every one do?

• In a longhouse every one helped out not like now a days when the parents do all the work and the kids watch tv.

• Even the kids did things. The kids mostly learned skills that will help them when they grow up like sewing, hunting , cooking and other things like that.

• Parents well, they split up the men hunted and the women raised the children, cooked and sewed.

Did the kids play on their Xbox?

• Native children did not have an Xbox or the things we do now like cars , electronics and stoves.

• Imagine your mother not cooking dinner on the stove cooking over a nice warm fire. That is what these kids had and I wasn’t mac-cheese it was whatever the men brought home from hunting.

Was their clothing nice?

• Native Americans dressed in animals skins they didn’t have tj max and target. They sometimes got animal skins that were beaded but that was the best they got.

This is what they wore.

I hope you enjoyed my slide about longhouses