Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.
Later day Haudenosaunee longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people
Haudenosaunee longhouse replica in New York State Museum, Albany, NY
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874).
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A tipi or tepee is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent
Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America
…Wigwam/Wickiup Tipi Virtual Museum of Canada, The St. Lawrence Iroquoians — Virtual exhibit that includes information on Iroquoian longhouse layout and architecture…
An Oglala Lakota tipi, 1891
Example of typical tipi camp circle on the Pine Ridge Reservation, circa 1890
Four Kiowa tipis (1904) with designs. From top left to right: design featuring bison herd and pipe-smoking deer, porcupine design, design featuring arms and legs with pipes and lizard, and design featuring water monsters
Examples of Siksika (Blackfoot) painted tipis, circa 1910