Iroquois Housing

The Iroquois were not a nomadic people. They had villages in one place where they build huge longhouses, much like the Haida. The Iroquois had to stay in one place because the relied on agriculture. They surrounded their villages with huge fences called pallisades made from sharpened posts. They constructed their longhouses by first making a framework made out of evergreens. Then they covered this narrow framework with the bark of elm trees. One house was large enough to accomodate 20 families. On the inside of houses they had sleeping platforms like the Haida. Sometimes the posts were carved much like totem poles. A picture of a real Iroquois longhouse