Why are buildings important?

Answer 1

Buildings are large structures which house people. Some buildings are private, and one family will use it for shelter when they sleep and eat. Others are public, a community might use a library building to house important documents.

Answer 2

all sorts The Lenape made dome-shaped houses called wigwams where a small family or individual could live. They pushed a circle of poles into the ground and then bent them over one another to make a domed frame, which they covered with sheets of bark, skins or woven rush mats. Sometimes several families lived together in a larger "longhouse," still rounded on top, but longer. Inside the longhouse were platforms of poles on either side that could be used as seats or beds. Down the center was a row of fires to share. Openings in the roof let the smoke out. Corn and herbs were hung high in the roof and there was room to store other goods beside the doorway.

The Lenape lived in settled villages but did not stay in one place for the whole of their lives. Every ten or twelve years they had to move their entire village to a new site because they had used up many of the Natural Resources of their area. During the year, small groups might re-locate to temporary camps farther removed from the main village. Here they would stay for an indefinite time until they procured the desired materials or foods.