D D O YO U K N OW H OW
TO BU I LD A LONGHOU S ES
Ethan Grover
Do you know how to build a longhouse?
The 9irst step is they draw a rectangle and dig holes to put the saplings in. The next step is they take saplings and bend the saplings for the frame work. The next The 9irst step of building a longhouse is drawing a rectangle. The next step is framing step is covering it with birch bark sow the bark together tie it on the frame work. After it’s done they make compartment they sleep and store stuff in the Compartments. They make fences around the longhouses to keep enemies and animal out! They take saplings and dig hole and put the sapling in.
Fact This is a longhouse village, Some longhouses can be 200 feet. there are a lot of longhouses.
This is a longhouse in the winter.
This longhouse is 300 feet long.
it’s really BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other ones can be 200 or less.
This is a longhouse getting built. It’s frame work
is almost done. Now there ready to do the bark.
This is a long house yard it is a REALLY BIG
YARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a picture, it is in side of a
longhouse.
this longhouse is less than 200 feet but it’s still a
longhouse
Every 20 years the Eastern Woodland Indians would move to another place
and build more longhouse because they get old and it starts to fall apart.
These longhouses are built and people live in
them.