Turkey Eve Humpday Triviola

Re: Turkey Eve Humpday Triviola

Because tomorrow is Thanksgiving and the word sounds like a Native American word, like Wigwam, Teepee,etc. my guess is Native Americans made them. Might be an outhouse because Tonto might say "I have to Weetu, Kemo Sabe".

Very warm there...

....but I need some specifics!!

Tom

Re: Turkey Eve Humpday Triviola

It is a modern day contraction of the phrase "we do too", as in when someone says they want more of the delicious food tomorrow, you would say "weetu".

Re: Turkey Eve Humpday Triviola

Well I Googled weetu

Imagine my surprise as what were the top hits.... I just had to think that you were thinking of a nice aromatic ceder switch to hurry along your staff of "Women�s Employment, Enterprise and Training Unit". That is where you are getting your servers from for tomorrow isn't it?

Lord, someone is sure to crucify me for this....

Bill

Re: did you mean wetu, instead of weetu?

If so, I found reference to them quite by accident when I visited my favorite archaeology news site last night.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/10012611.html

Nothing about cedar, but I suppose the mats could have been woven of cedar bark. You'll have to read the article to find the answer, which is several pages deep into it.

Thanks. Cool!

I've seen Thanksgiving stories about "Squanto" before. But much of what was written was new to me. I liked this article a bunch. I wonder if there are any examples remaining of the way these were made?

BTW anyone else notice the similarity between the way shelters were constructed for an igloo and the eastern Massachusetts indian huts? The materials are different of course, but the way thay were set up for living is similar. I wonder if it was linked by family/oral history tradition or independently developed over time by completely separate ancestors as the tested way to deal with weather.

Belated Answer

Sorry for the delay. I had to wait until my turkey coma wore off.

There were close answers but this question needed specifics. Weetus were relevant to thanksgiving as they were dwellings related to the native Americans who shared Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. Here is a bit more info:

Most likely, the colonists built houses similar to those they had known in England. Archaeological excavations, such as the one at the Allerton homestead in Kingston, show the remains of wooden houses with corner posts sunk into the ground (earthfast construction), rather than houses built on stone foundations. This evidence, combined with the surviving later houses, suggests that the Pilgrims built houses using traditional English methods. Construction details of some surviving houses may also suggest a Dutch influence. The Wampanoag house, called a weetu, was built of cedar saplings and covered with bark and cattail mats. There is no evidence that the Pilgrims adopted Native housing, in spite of the fact that it had been developed to suit the environment, and probably was warmer in the winter.

Tom