Seminole Palmetto Roofs

I love the smell of a new chickee.

Seminole palmetto roofs. According to the seminole tribe of florida s website chickee is the word seminole indians use for house. Our example was woven by a seminole tribal member. The florida building code states. The term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing.

As used in this paragraph the term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing or other nonwood features. The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s as a quick and disposable dwelling while they were avoiding american troops. Chickees considered exempt are constructed by the miccosukee tribe of indians of florida or the seminole tribe of florida. Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.

The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s. The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s. Some people in big cypress still live in family camps with a cooking shed and separate chikkees for sleeping and storage. The traditional seminole house called a chikkee was a simple open shelter of cypress poles with a thatched palmetto roof cool and comfortable in the summer heat.

Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run. A chickee was usually about nine feet wide and sixteen feet long with a wooden platform which served as the floor and a thatched roof. A chickee was a house built on stilts usually about three or four feet above the ground.