Native American Precontact Housing

(Some of the housing has more information available. Just click any of the underlined text for more.)

Central Arctic snowdome, igloo	Plains large buffalo-hide tipi	Southwestern and Meso-American pueblo
Early Navajo earth-covered hogan	Plains large earth-covered lodge -- Hidatsa, Arikara, Mandan	Plateau, northwest interior ladder-entrance pithouse
Southeastern woven-plastered walls, thatched roof house	Seminole thatched chickee	Great Basin/California thatched wikiup
Yukon, Oregon-California double lean-to, planks and bark	Northwest Coast plank house	Northwestern forest longhouse
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