Chutiyas are one of the indigenous groups of the soil of Assam. They five their lives with the downtrodden norms as enforced by the natural calamities and unfavourable geographical patterns. They reside mostly in the interior places near by the jungle or on the banks of the rivers. They have no road communication facilities. Transportation infrastructure is very poor. River is the only way of communication and boat is the only means of transportation of the Chutlyas.
Chutiya community is one of the reserved type and hardly they mix up
wits other people. They more often separate themselves from the other
societies and prefer living in isolation. Therefore they establish their villages in interior places. In a village there live atleast fifty or sixty families and they build their but and Cluing glairs (house on bamboo poles will) thatched roofs and bamboo made floors built few feet above the ground ) maintaining a little gap from each family. As they basically establish their village on the banks of the rivers, they build their house maintaining parallel sequence with the river.
The village life of Chutiyas is very cblourful. They always maintain unity among themselves. There is a head in every village who maintains the law and controls the awkward situations if any. The villagers assemble together in community works and with unity they perform the activities of their rural cornrnuribl walk of life like-from fishing, hunting, sowing, preparing and harvesting crops to building huts or Chang Ghars, celebrating a marriage ceremony and_obscnrving death rituals and so on.
The Chutiyas are used to two kinds of dwelling - one is ground plant and the other is Chang Ghar. In every family we can have a Moral Ghat. (a bed room for married and unmarried young members ), one Bur Ghor (where they cook meal and observe rstuals).There is also a Bharat Ghar (storage of agricultural product) and a Guhaii Ghor (or keeping animals) in every family. They use bamboo, wood, and thatching grass for roof which is very comfortable for living.