She said that one of their tribe, who had just returned from hunting, had told her that the Bear tribe on the land was getting ready to burn down the Lake-Dweller homes.
When Lodrix heard this, he ran to his father and said, “May I get ready to fight, father?”
The chief put his hands on his son’s head, saying, “My brave boy.”
Then he told Lodrix to go out and call the people together.
Soon they came, hundreds of them, from the many square huts which were crowded about the chief’s home.
These houses were built from cedar poles matted together with twigs and plastered both inside and out with two or three inches of clay.
There were one or two small windows without shutters and one low door.
The roofs were made of straw or rushes and the floors were often plastered with clay and gravel.
In the center of the roof was a hole through which the smoke escaped, and in the floor was a small trap-door that opened over the lake.