If you begin with a few young healthy trees, bending them together, and tangling the soft branches into one-another, a wetu is anchored to the earth, and is actually a living thing for several more years to come. If that young tree is a maple, your home makes sweetener. When it finally dies, it serves as a strong piling for many years to come, and the wetu withstand very high winds.
Ficus roots are trained across rivers in India for bridges. They eventually bond to each other where they touch, making a very strong and long lasting living bridge. Ficus are also good for bonsai because they can be bent and twisted and they take the new shape. You could make a home with ficus saplings in the tropics and it should live for a very long time.
Thank you for this beautiful tutorial on our Native history… this Abenaki Woman appreciates your time,& effort to show us the traditions of our ancestors… we must keep these skills alive for future generations !! 🌻🪶🦌🐾🌲
I was fortunate to have a Native American friend who remembers her other mother taking her to her grandmother's wigwam for the day. Her grandmother refused to live in a house only her wigwam
You prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can watch all the new movies on instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my gf for the last few weeks :)
I wish that they had a narrated Full length version / how-to version like a PBS Version. I'd be interested in buying something like that. I know that Amazon does have books on the subject.
Interesting presentation! What type of bark, grass or reeds were used? What type of bark provided the tying material? Was there a preferred type of tree to use for the poles?
This is the best example of a wigwam I have seen so far. The builder shows such care and precision, and the modern use of reeds is a good adaption to abundance. Instead of a “survival shelter” as you will see made often, this looks to be an actual home. I can’t make out the saplings though-are they hop hornbeam?
Looks so nice! Hardly even "primitive". I wish I knew what specific plants were used for construction, and that there were more details given in general.
Hi! I just noticed your comment when replying to a reply on my comment (what on earth was that sentence, lol). In my neck of the woods, we typically use Alder and birch bark. With that said, we're a resourceful bunch so we also use what's available. I suspect that's why the materials in the video look so strange to me! I've also never seen a wi'kuom designed quite like this before, I'm used to them being a little smaller with a hole in the roof for smoke to escape through. Maybe a variation because of a warmer climate?
A long time ago I was taught this by the grandson of a voyager. We wet lay the reed, laying straight then crisscross layers(3 layers, half hand thick each). Then clay cover and bark up. Then light a fire and dry for three days.
In real history it would be the men who built the frame. The women and children would finish their newly framed long houses or wigwams and the men would go hunting after the frames were constructed. The game caught would get skinned and butchered, its hide tanned, and its meat smoked for winters, stored, cooked and eaten by all the relatives and descendants of two Gens seated at the head of the table the oldest members of the tribe. From up high skylights open and close and hanging from the rafters to dry for herbs, paint, seeds, and weed to smoke a la tobacco. I often wondered if it was pot in the peace pipe? A Long House could house up to six individual families, has three fireplaces, and double as a smoke house, storage, all members sleep, live, use as a workshop, it can be as a high as two stories and as long as 1000 feet. Interior lofts for bedding and rooms walled off by skins. More than one Long House and you have a village run by the Gens of each tribe. The Long House is the Windmill of the Americas and it can be found all over the world in every historical period but the period we are stuck with. The methods and materials of construction served well for thousands of years as a self-sufficient system against the forces of nature. All that gave way to creation of markets where needs are met by means of money and Home Depot lumber. When money is not the bond people need to live the Long House will return to general use the question is will it before or after the next mass human debacle? Single family units dissolve a way of life of self-sufficiency creating a state of mind and condition of place of dependency. Individual families lose language, fraternity, culture, skill spawned from the bonds of cooperation that connected them to each other in one Long House.
@@jonjon-wv2iv The term "wigwam" is an English morph of "wi'kuom", the Mi'kmaw word for a home or dwelling. Coming from eastern Canada, the materials I'm accustomed to seeing are quite different. With that said, we're adaptable folk so it makes sense to use what's available, and the principles certainly look the same. The most striking difference might be the roof, I'm used to having a hole in the roof for a smoke vent. :P
I can't speak to this build, but the type of wi'kuom (dwelling) I'm used to seeing would probably only take a day or two. I'm guessing the design here has morphed over the years for the warmer climate and the loss of the nomadic lifestyle.
From what I've seen it was in the middle with a vent hole in the roof. There would be a cover/tarp or hide to cover to keep out the rain & snow. They would also have a air tube from the outside buried in the ground and a stone pit to supply the air for the fire and the stones would help retain the heat from the fire for radiant heat as the fire would die down.
all you yt people on here need to understand that these were where we survived for generations. they are sacred homes NOT decoration. if you are yt do not build a wigwam at your house they are not your play toy
How well were tribes able to keep warm in wigwams during the winter months? I've noticed wigwams being used by tribes in some of the coldest states or areas during the winter.
I agree with Vance, however if available I am sure the cane that once grew in the large cane brakes would work. Some people used the can covered in mud clay to construct walls.
If you begin with a few young healthy trees, bending them together, and tangling the soft branches into one-another, a wetu is anchored to the earth, and is actually a living thing for several more years to come. If that young tree is a maple, your home makes sweetener. When it finally dies, it serves as a strong piling for many years to come, and the wetu withstand very high winds.
Ficus roots are trained across rivers in India for bridges. They eventually bond to each other where they touch, making a very strong and long lasting living bridge. Ficus are also good for bonsai because they can be bent and twisted and they take the new shape. You could make a home with ficus saplings in the tropics and it should live for a very long time.
Maple syrup
Ah you a big sapling. Sap..ping off of me. Twin Towers.idaho powers.
Thank you for this beautiful tutorial on our Native history… this Abenaki Woman appreciates your time,& effort to show us the traditions of our ancestors… we must keep these skills alive for future generations !! 🌻🪶🦌🐾🌲
So glad to see these old skills haven’t been lost
I was fortunate to have a Native American friend who remembers her other mother taking her to her grandmother's wigwam for the day. Her grandmother refused to live in a house only her wigwam
I agree with Grandma. I wish i had that choice to make.
Pretty amazing! Would like to see the inside of the Wigwam once it was completed. Please do an update video!🙏
i think everyone will like it. Such a nice video👌...keep sharing
Love it! It is like living in an inverted basket of sorts.Thank you sharing this knowledge.
Wow, nicely insulated and all natural materials. That is beautiful.
You prolly dont care but if you are bored like me during the covid times you can watch all the new movies on instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my gf for the last few weeks :)
@Jonah Travis Definitely, have been watching on instaflixxer for since december myself :D
How long do you think one of these could last?
@@nofurtherwest3474 forever if cared for
@@DUMBVRKID interesting
This build is awesome!
I love nature.
This is beautiful! Thank you!
I wish that they had a narrated Full length version / how-to version like a PBS Version. I'd be interested in buying something like that. I know that Amazon does have books on the subject.
Interesting presentation! What type of bark, grass or reeds were used? What type of bark provided the tying material? Was there a preferred type of tree to use for the poles?
This is the best example of a wigwam I have seen so far. The builder shows such care and precision, and the modern use of reeds is a good adaption to abundance. Instead of a “survival shelter” as you will see made often, this looks to be an actual home. I can’t make out the saplings though-are they hop hornbeam?
Absolute fantastic
Wow! This is incredible! Thank you so much for sharing!
Wish you showed the bark removal process, I kinda missed some steps because of this.
WOW!! Amazing.....
This is a amazing wigwam! My students and I loved your video!
Beautiful video thank you.
Thanks, it helped on my project and got A+
Looks so nice! Hardly even "primitive". I wish I knew what specific plants were used for construction, and that there were more details given in general.
Hi! I just noticed your comment when replying to a reply on my comment (what on earth was that sentence, lol). In my neck of the woods, we typically use Alder and birch bark. With that said, we're a resourceful bunch so we also use what's available. I suspect that's why the materials in the video look so strange to me!
I've also never seen a wi'kuom designed quite like this before, I'm used to them being a little smaller with a hole in the roof for smoke to escape through. Maybe a variation because of a warmer climate?
Just from the visual, it looks like cedar saplings, cedar bark lashing, river cane bundles, tulip poplar bark outer cover, and smoke hole rain cover.
Traditionally it would be willow saplings and birch bark. But of course its all regional. Where are these guys located?
The bark used may well be poplar. There is a hickory species that is similar to poplar bark but is preferred if available.
Really cool! ❤️
Beautifully built
Very well done but would have liked to seen inside
Cool!!!
This was so cool to watch! Keep up the good work!
thank you
❤ wow
Everyone should understand how to build a shelter that will keep you warm and dry from the materials that were given to us by the Creator for free!
That was a very nice video
AMAZING STUFF.
Really beautiful work!👍😎
That is very good
Wow!
Is there some sort of hole on the roof to allow smoke to escape when you’re cooking inside during winter?
This is interesting. I descend from the Huguenots that came Manikintown,VA in 1700
Wow nice
Wish you had shown the interior.
Very neat
I wonder if anyone out there still has one of these in working condition
Considering you can make one in two weeks, they get built and destroyed on the regular.
Did the Iroquois live in wigwams when they went hunting? I found it in a book once
So, using the blue tarps isn't historically accurate?
Is this crew that built the Wigwam what they call the Wig Party in olden times?
Great work
Nice I love this
Good
True blue never loses it's hue, Hugh, Hughes, hues...What 🐕
Can you build one for my camp?
wow
For the horde!!
It's surprising how much this looks like the thatched roofs of England. Except here the thatch comes all the way to ground.
nice
I have been learning about this. How long did that take you?😲
I have been learning about this in school!
A long time ago I was taught this by the grandson of a voyager. We wet lay the reed, laying straight then crisscross layers(3 layers, half hand thick each). Then clay cover and bark up. Then light a fire and dry for three days.
super , beau travail
In real history it would be the men who built the frame.
The women and children would finish their newly framed long houses or wigwams and the men would go hunting after the frames were constructed. The game caught would get skinned and butchered, its hide tanned, and its meat smoked for winters, stored, cooked and eaten by all the relatives and descendants of two Gens seated at the head of the table the oldest members of the tribe. From up high skylights open and close and hanging from the rafters to dry for herbs, paint, seeds, and weed to smoke a la tobacco. I often wondered if it was pot in the peace pipe?
A Long House could house up to six individual families, has three fireplaces, and double as a smoke house, storage, all members sleep, live, use as a workshop, it can be as a high as two stories and as long as 1000 feet. Interior lofts for bedding and rooms walled off by skins. More than one Long House and you have a village run by the Gens of each tribe. The Long House is the Windmill of the Americas and it can be found all over the world in every historical period but the period we are stuck with.
The methods and materials of construction served well for thousands of years as a self-sufficient system against the forces of nature. All that gave way to creation of markets where needs are met by means of money and Home Depot lumber. When money is not the bond people need to live the Long House will return to general use the question is will it before or after the next mass human debacle?
Single family units dissolve a way of life of self-sufficiency creating a state of mind and condition of place of dependency.
Individual families lose language, fraternity, culture, skill spawned from the bonds of cooperation that connected them to each other in one Long House.
What kinda would do you use?
Its vary nice thx for putting the time and effort for this I Have a test on this so thx
Wow, I've never seen or heard of a 'wigwam' like this before. :o
Wdym and my teacher is late
@@jonjon-wv2iv The term "wigwam" is an English morph of "wi'kuom", the Mi'kmaw word for a home or dwelling. Coming from eastern Canada, the materials I'm accustomed to seeing are quite different. With that said, we're adaptable folk so it makes sense to use what's available, and the principles certainly look the same.
The most striking difference might be the roof, I'm used to having a hole in the roof for a smoke vent. :P
Great
Life before Home Depot😁
Beautiful work great job thank y’all Jesus Christ loves y’all
Were there any First Nations People involved in this construction?
My teacher assigned this for me :D
Same-
super mir gefällt's 👍👍👍👍👍
Why did you heat up one of the tops of the branch?
those Mormon assistants are industrious! 😅
Nice looking Wigwam fellas
How long did this Big Ol wigwam take to build? 5th Graders want to know! Thanks.
I can't speak to this build, but the type of wi'kuom (dwelling) I'm used to seeing would probably only take a day or two. I'm guessing the design here has morphed over the years for the warmer climate and the loss of the nomadic lifestyle.
How long did it take to build that in real life?
A sheet of polyethylene underneath the thatch would make that 100% weather and water proof.
Beautiful structure but where do you build the 🔥?
From what I've seen it was in the middle with a vent hole in the roof. There would be a cover/tarp or hide to cover to keep out the rain & snow. They would also have a air tube from the outside buried in the ground and a stone pit to supply the air for the fire and the stones would help retain the heat from the fire for radiant heat as the fire would die down.
On the roof, duh
Never seen this kind of design. Usually it’s just bark to make the walls
Wigwams are not cone-shaped?
Zillow has that listed at $600K.
seems like a lot of work, but I guess they didn't have internet back then
blake, you the man, NOT.
Wow, so amazing!!
Nice build.
all you yt people on here need to understand that these were where we survived for generations. they are sacred homes NOT decoration. if you are yt do not build a wigwam at your house they are not your play toy
I built one of these strictly for partying in a tree not far from my lawn! Sacred is definitely the way we feel in there!
Tyler Brown i bet you say the n word too you piece of shit. you’ll get what’s coming for you
Do you think that it is wrong that these people built a wigwam?
와 아름다워요
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How is the bark collecting process done? Great video 👍👍👍👍
how long this take with no fast forward
Wado!
How long did this take?
I'm doing a project about this
@@brianripley5525 Do you know when you'll have completion? Perhaps you'll post a video of your notes AS YOU GO?
You did not bother to show us the interior or what it might look like
I wonder if the Potawatomi built their homes this way?
Do we know which Native Americans would have lived in these wigwams? My class loved this video!! Thank you!!
I believe the Shawnee of Ohio used this or very similar method. Places with hardwood materials were abundant.
Wonderful
How well were tribes able to keep warm in wigwams during the winter months? I've noticed wigwams being used by tribes in some of the coldest states or areas during the winter.
The Wi'kuom originates in Mi'kma'ki, a region of Eastern Canada. They must've gotten the job done, I'm still here. :P
I never write comment wow!
Nood
what if we just lived in an upside down basket, those guys, probably
Are the bundles of insulation made from the cane poles that you use for fishing poles? Or are they made from something else?
abigail Riley I’m pretty sure they’re just reed bundles. And the cane poles are bamboo
I agree with Vance, however if available I am sure the cane that once grew in the large cane brakes would work. Some people used the can covered in mud clay to construct walls.
so preety
Hermoso👏👏👏🇨🇱
Is a wigwam warm in winter time?
QUARK yes
Depends on how big a fire you light inside. :D
The outside of that wigwam look like trees bark
I think it is!
@@Suburbanstoneage It definately is.
Considering how sturdy that structure looks, seems like it should have an actual door opposed to a deer skin or some such.
No exhaust for a fire
This were typically build during the summer months no need for indoor fire
noice