The Kanata Village is a small re-creation of an Iroquois community in the early days of the settlers and pre-contact. The walls are built tall around the long houses as a first line of defense. They were built tall to help keep out the elements and enemies. Within the walls of the village are the longhouses. Buildings constructed of Birch Bark and used to house the people in the Village, store goods and hold community meetings. The beds and shelves were bunked on multiple levels along the walls. A long dirt hallway runs down the middle and has a fire pit that is gathered around for council and cooking. Outside the long house other small other structures were setup for food storage and working. These re-creations of Primitive Iroquois community infrastructure give people the ability to experience what a pre-colonial home would have looked like for a First Nations Village. This gives the opportunity to learn from history by experiencing these displays. They are a reminder of ghosts of the past, how simple things were at one point in history. These homes were eventually pushed out of production as the new European style home building was adopted. Along with disappearance of this style of living, the First nations people were taken as children from their parents and their homes, and sent to live at residential schools where there way of life was being taken away at its beginnings.
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