The life of Aboriginals is an amazing and spiritual one. I visited a native village. Its exhibits and reproductions of longhouses show the lifestyles of Aboriginals 500 years ago. The Ontario Museum of Archaeology is in the middle of a residential area. Surprising for its kind!The Aboriginals lived in longhouses. The longhouses were usually about 20-40 meters long. The inside of a longhouse had rows of beds and 3 firepits that were used for cooking. The Aboriginals had a very interesting life. There were originally 14 longhouses in the village. The village had a palisade and lookouts to watch for enemies. Near the entrance there was a maze so it would be hard for enemies to enter into the village. Aboriginals still exist today throughout Canada.
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Did more than one family sleep in the longhouses? Assuming they ate in the longhouses (because the firepits for cooking were there as well), did they have tables too?
ReplyDeleteWhat is a palisade?
Loved your blog - where did the families get water for cooking and drinking? What were the longhouses made of?
ReplyDeleteMore than one family lived in the longhouses. They did not have tables for eating on. A palisade is a wooden fence that goes around the native village. It protects them from the enemies just like a Medieval castle wall would.
ReplyDeleteThey went to the river to get water. They used animal skins as buckets or containers for the water. The longhouses were made of tree bark and sticks.
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