Chikee or Chickee (`house` in the Creek and Mikasuki languages spoken by the Seminoles and Miccosukees) is a shelter supported by posts, with a raised floor, a thatched roof and open sides. Chickees are also known as chickee huts, stilt houses, or platform dwellings. The chickee style of architecture—palmetto thatch over a bald cypress log fra.....
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(from the article `Everglades`) The Seminoles found sanctuary in the swamps and marshes because the white settlers did not covet the glades at the time. They developed the ...
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An elevated, sheltered wooden platform built along interior rivers and bays where no dry land exists.
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(among the Seminole Indians) an open-sided structure, usually thatched with palms and serving as a dwelling. · a similar structure, used to provide shelter from the sun, as at a beach.
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