Pequot+Housing+-+the+Wigwam

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Here is a Voice Thread to explain the main type of housing that the Pequot and other local tribes used. In the winters they would sometimes share longer wigwams with several families.

The video below shows how the Pequot men would build the wigwams.

We built a model wigwam in class and tried to follow the same steps that the Pequots did.

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