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Only some native Americans built wigwams; the word is used to mean a smallish structure that is either made on a domed or cone-shaped framework of poles and covered with large sheets of tree bark or mats of woven plant fibre. These dwellings were mainly used in the eastern woodlands region - there were no wigwams on the Great Plains, on the north-west coast, in the south-west or in Florida - or in Mexico, Guatemala or anywhere in South America.

So it is clearly wrong to suggest that all native American houses are called wigwams - they are definitely not.

The word comes from the many Algonquian languages spoken along the east coast of Canada and the USA: for example Natick wekuwomut (in his house).

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