Before Postmodernism the authors that made up the literary canon in the United States were mostly white men.
This literary movement called Modernism (or modernist literature) had a non-traditional style of verse and poetry. The writers from that time felt traditional poetry was outdated, and that new forms of expression and representation had to be done to express new sensibilities and beliefs.
A town meeting is usually held at town hall. Some towns have them once a month
This website says that they lived in structures called longhouses.
-Longhouses were long rectangular homes. Longhouses were made by building a frame from saplings, or young trees. They were then covered with bark sewn together. There was a long hallway with rooms on both sides. Sleeping platforms, covered with deerskin, lined each wall. There were also shelves for storing baskets, pots, and pelts. Pelts are the skins of animals with the fur attached. Several families would live in the long house, but the families were related to each other.-
source: <em>http://www.germantownbulldogs.org/pages/Indian%20Project/woodland2.html</em>
Because of Marie Antoinette I think