Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run.
													
																	Seminole palmetto roofs. 
									
	
		
	
																	As used in this paragraph the term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing or other nonwood features. 
																	I love the smell of a new chickee. 
																	Nearly everything used to build a chickee came from the palmetto tree which was common in the southeastern united states. 
																	The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	The same fronds can also be used to thatch chickee roofs. 
																	H chickees constructed by the miccosukee tribe of indians of florida or the seminole tribe of florida. 
																	Troops needed fast disposable shelter while on the run. 
																	A chickee was a house built on stilts usually about three or four feet above the ground. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	The traditional seminole house called a chikkee was a simple open shelter of cypress poles with a thatched palmetto roof cool and comfortable in the summer heat. 
																	Our example was woven by a seminole tribal member. 
																	The florida building code states. 
																	The term chickee means an open sided wooden hut that has a thatched roof of palm or palmetto or other traditional materials and that does not incorporate any electrical plumbing. 
															
													
									
	
		
	
																	Some people in big cypress still live in family camps with a cooking shed and separate chikkees for sleeping and storage. 
																	The chickee style of architecture palmetto thatch over a cypress log frame was born during the early 1800s when seminole indians pursued by u s. 
																	According to the seminole tribe of florida s website chickee is the word seminole indians use for house.