A wetu is a domed hut, used by some north-eastern Native American

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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. ...

."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

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and

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. They were made out of sticks of a red cedar frame covered with either tree bark or mats made from

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or reeds.

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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

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