earthen huts

an earhen hut is a semi-subterranean building covered partialy or completely with earth

earthen huts are well known form the more native tribes of the plains such as...

tribes

• the Hidasta
• the Mandan
• the Arikara
• which were mostly settled in the eastern united states
• these settlements were amung sites of the mississippian culture

the hut was not ment to be built in a humid or very wet enviroment because the huts would become weak an collapes on some ocasions