USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sioux people lived in a great round tent called a “tipi.” The tipi was made of wooden poles covered with decorated buffalo hide. The tipi had only one room. The floor was bare earth.

Detailed explanation-2: -A tipi (also spelled teepee) is a type of shelter, shaped like a cone and traditionally made from wooden poles and coverings sewn from the hides of bison.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tepee was generally made by stretching a cover sewn of dressed buffalo skins over a framework of wooden poles; in some cases reed mats, canvas, sheets of bark, or other materials were used for the covering.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some tribes have a rich culture of painting their tipis to depict their symbiotic relationship with the natural world. Illustrations of animals such as buffalo, bears, deer, elk, otters, and various birds often adorned the lodges of Blackfeet, Arapaho, Sioux, Cheyenne, and Kiowa tipis.

Detailed explanation-5: -As Native Americans on the Plains became more focused on hunting, they became more nomadic. They constructed teepees-conical tents made out of buffalo skin and wood-shelters that were easy to put up and take down if a band was following a buffalo herd for hunting.