Housing

Pit House

    The Yakama people lived in pit houses, also known as earth lodges. Pit houses are holes halfway underground with a wooden framed roof covered with mats made of animal hide and cattail fibers. Pit houses were usually 12 feet wide, and meant for one family. The Yakama would also live in teepees made out of animal hide like the Native Americans of the plains. They would use the teepees when they were on hunting expeditions or travelling in the summer because they were easy to build.

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Teepees