Every tribe was different and every native village looked different.
Some woodlands tribes made longhouses like those of the Iroquois tribes; others used small dome-shaped wigwams covered with bark sheets or woven mats; others made cone-shaped wigwams; others used a mixture of these. Some villages were surrounded by a palisade fence of tall poles, others had no fence.
It is wrong to believe that every tribe did exactly the same thing as every other tribe. An 18th century white frontiersman could easily tell which native group occupied a certain village from the shapes of the dwellings, the specific shape of the canoes, the clothing and hairstyles of the people and the language being spoken.
Mi'kmaq villages and camps , for example only ever had a few conical wigwams, no palisade fence and the distinctive-shaped canoes were kept close to the dwellings.
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