What are Cherokee winter houses made of?

Cherokee people lived in farming villages in the Middle Ages, before Europeans arrived. They built summer houses and winter houses, meeting houses, and fortification walls around their villages. Cherokee houses were usually circular. read more

Council houses, as they were also called, were made of saplings (young trees) and mud. The Cherokee would gather at the council house for parties, political assemblies and religious ceremonies. Bunched around the council house was a collection of extended family homes. read more

Beneath their beds they stored pumpkins, winter squash, and other vegetables to protect them from frost.” To my knowledge, the most significant description of Cherokee winter houses yet published was Charles W. Faulkner’s “Origin and Evolution of the Cherokee Winter House,” published in the Journal of Cherokee Studies (Spring 1978). read more

Cherokee live like modern Americans. Some have some very nice houses. However in olden times after the removal, they built log cabins like most of the folks in backwoods areas. Once they got settled and some of them made money they built lovely homes. read more