Many people lived in a longhouse because they were so large!
The Iroquois lived in longhouses. The residents of a longhouse were all related. The related families formed a clan. There could be as many as 60 people living in a structure that could be 100 feet long. The structure was called a longhouse, because if was longer than it was wide.
The Iroquois lived in longhouses. The residents of a longhouse were all related. The related families formed a clan. There could be as many as 60 people living in a structure that could be 100 feet long. The structure was called a longhouse, because if was longer than it was wide.
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the Iroquois have Lots of people in there tribe and longhouses are made for 20 people.
7 to 8 people live in a longhouse average though some were bigger.
In the Seneca tribe up to sixty people lived in a longhouse at one time. The longhouses could be as long as one hundred feet and housed Seneca clans.
many families could live in it at once.
Up to twenty families might live in one longhouse of the Iroquois. A longhouse was one family, but not the family as western people understand it. It was centred on a woman, the matriarch of the house, and included her children and her husband and anybody who was a sister, brother, sister-by-marriage or brother-by-marriage, and all the nephews or nieces of the matriarch.
approximately 7 - 8 people lived in 1 longhouse, but they could fit from 20 - 24 depending on the size.
dozens of families lived together depending on the size of the longhouse. from 8 to 24 people.
That depends on how you define family. If you consider your grandmother and your cousins family then the answer would be one family. If you consider them to be extended family then more than one, depending on the size of the house.Native American family units are very different than European family units; more-so in the modern sense.
The Iroquois lived in a part of the Midwest near the Great Lakes. The area where they lived was dotted by many lakes and other bodies of water. The Iroquois had many places to fish.