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A wetu is a domed hut, used by some north-eastern
Native American tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
s such as the
Wampanoag
The Wampanoag , also rendered Wôpanâak, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands based in southeastern Massachusetts and historically parts of eastern Rhode Island,Salwen, "Indians of Southern New England and Long Island," p. 17 ...
.
["Wigwams, also called wetus, were houses used by the Algonquian Indians who lived in the woodland regions. Wigwam means "house" in the Abenaki tribe and wetu means "house" in the Wampanoag tribe." ''A Historical Look at American Indians''. ooks.google.com/books?id=iavZMkdjp0MC/ref> They provided shelter, sometimes seasonal or temporary, for families near the wooded coast for ]hunting
Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...
and fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are often caught as wildlife from the natural environment, but may also be caught from stocked bodies of water such as ponds, canals, park wetlands and reservoirs. Fishing techniques inclu ...
. They were made out of sticks of a red cedar frame covered with either tree bark or mats made from grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
or reeds.
References
Further reading
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* {{cite web
, last = Maldonado
, first = Karen
, url = http://www.eastway.dpsnc.net/Mills%20Files/MillsGarEss/WetuAdobe/WetuKaren.PDF
, title = The Wetus
, format = PDF
, accessdate = March 12, 2006
External links
A discussion of the wetu with Tim Turner, manager of the Wampanoag Indigenous Program
at Plimouth Plantation.
An almost four-minute video interview about a wetu
Traditional Native American dwellings
Wampanoag tribe
Huts in the United States