Usually just one smoke hole
7 to 8 people live in a longhouse average though some were bigger.
how many people can fit in a native lodge
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.
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.
Yes, one in the east and one in the west.
There are a couple of advantages of using a longhouse. Some of those advantages includes the longhouse being able to hold more than one family and it was the location of political gatherings and meetings.
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The word "smoke" is one syllable.
Meherrins lived in longhouses. This was the typical dwelling of all Iroquois people. The Longhouse could be as big as 200 feet long and houses several families inside. It was made with strong tree branches bent into a half cirlce from the ground on the left and right side. It had one door on each of the two ends. It also had holes in the roof for smoke to pass through. People usually lived in one longhouse with other members of the same clan, or family which was decended from one woman. Clans inlcuded the Snipe, Beaver, and Turtle clan and usually each lonhouse belonged to a different clan. There were shelves and beds along the walls.