Shemie, Bonnie

An illustrated history of Canadian architecture that describes seventeenth-century French buildings, early Victorian churches, nineteenth-century western settlement homes, and several other types of structures. Also includes a time line and a glossary.

Describes how the three major types ofmhouses found from Oregon up the Canadian coast to southeastern Alaska were constructed.

Explores the techniques used in building the enduring cliff dwellings, stone structures, and pueblos of the American Southwest.

Examines how the Plains Indians built shelters from the skins of buffalo and soil dug from the earth.

Examines the mounds which were used for religious ceremonies, burial sites, and hills to hold homes of the powerful of the earliest known civilizations of North America's native peoples.

Describes the construction materials and methods used by the Inuit to build different types of shelters suitable to their environment.

Examines the tipi and earthlodges of the Plains Indians and describes the symbolism of their shapes and designs, how they were constructed, and other buildings such as sweatlodges, and drying and burial platforms.

Describes the materials, construction, and uses of different kinds of shelters made by various Woodland Indian tribes in northeastern Canada and the United States.