Category
page 1Seminole culture
Muscogee
Indigenous American language
Mikasuki
Muskogean language spoken by around 500 people in southern Florida
Chickee
thumb|Mother and children at a camp on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, 1949
thumb|An Indian camp with a sleep chickee, cooking chickee, and eating chickee
Chikee or Chickee ("house" in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides. Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings.
The chickee style of architecture—palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log frame—was adopted by Seminoles during the Second (1835–1842) and Third (1855–1858) Seminole W
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