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Wigwam

"Wigwam" is the name for a type of traditional Native American house of the Northeast Woodlands, made of wooden poles with birchbark covering. The word "wigwam" comes from the Abenaki word for "house," wigwôm (or wigw8m), pronounced similar to wee-gwawm. (Similar words exist in other Algonquian languages, like the Ojibwe word wiigiwaam.)

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