White Home - July 1999
Crow Reservation
In 1978 a tribal member lost her home when the Little Bighorn flooded. She was given a Red Cross trailer for use until she could secure new housing. It was not adequate for her son and adopted children to live in, but they managed for twenty years to suffer through gas leaks, holes in the floor, and brutally cold winters. In 1999, she became the recipient of Red Feather’s first straw bale home, built in partnership with the departments of Architecture and Construction Management of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at the University of Washington.
