The southern Algonquians lived in semi-permanent villages in the summer and in extensive hunting camps in the fall and winter. The cultivation of corn, squash, beans, sunflowers and tobacco was combined with hunting, fishing and gathering in their economy. The semi-permanent villages were palisaded and established along waterways to facilitate the irrigation of the vast cultivated fields. They had several large houses covered with bark that resembled the Iroquoian longhouses and were sometimes densely populated. 
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