What do native American stockades look like?

Not all tribes built palisades or stockades around their villages; these were generally confined to the eastern woodlands where timber was plentiful, but some of the Upper Missouri and Midwest tribes also used wooden poles to build a protective fence.

These could be enormous (as at the city of Cahokia) or smaller and full of gaps, which could be used to shoot arrows at attackers. Some also had platforms built at intervals as watch-towers.