What were the mohawk Indian's homes made out of?

Answer 1

The mohawk lived in wigwams and longhouses. The wigwams were dome shaped constructed of a base of saplings. This base was covered either in reeds or bark, leaving an opening for smoke. The longhouses were similarly constructed but were shaped rectangularly and housed many people.

Answer 2

All the Iroquois tribes and many of their neighbours built longhouses of poles and tree bark. All the materials came from the forest: tall poles from young, straight saplings were set into the ground, bent over and tied together at the tops to make a framework, supported by horizontal poles tied on with the same bark strips used throughout construction. Mohawk longhouses appear to have been built with rounded ends - other tribes made these ends flat, sometimes with an added porch.

Sheets of bark (generally elm in the Iroquois country, since birch was less common there) covered the entire structure, with large stones sometimes placed on top to prevent strong winds taking the roof off. Alternatively, an outer frame of split poles would be tied over the whole structure to keep everything in place.

The links below take you to a website with more details, plus images of Iroquois longhouses:

Answer 3

The Iroquois Indian tribe was actually a confederacy of six Native American nations. It consisted of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. They were a very powerful and prominent Indian tribe.

They were called Iroquois by their neighbors (the Algonkian speaking people) and European settlers. They actually called themselves Haudenosaunee, which meant "people who live in the extended longhouses." The Iroquois lived in a type of dwelling known as a longhouse. A longhouse is a long, narrow single room that was built by Native American Indians, but also by those inhabiting Asia and Europe. Many cultures regard the longhouse as the earliest form of a permanent structure. While the longhouse may have reached lengths of 100 meters, they were generally never wider than 5 to 7 meters.

The Iroquois longhouses had doors on both ends. They were usually covered with animal skins during the winters to keep some of the cold air out. Each Iroquois longhouse was designed so as many as twenty families or more could live in it. A family would occupy a booth on either side of the hallway. The booth had a wooden platform for sleeping.

Answer 4

For the houses they used wood.