USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tipis provided a flexible shelter that allowed Native Americans to follow animals they hunted across the Great Plains. B. Different Native American tribes used different types of shelter to survive depending on their location, lifestyle, and available resources.

Detailed explanation-2: -Teepees were the homes of the nomadic tribes of the Great Plains. A teepee was built using a number of long poles as the frame. The poles were tied together at the top and spread out at the bottom to make an upside down cone shape. Then the outside was wrapped with a large covering made of buffalo hide.

Detailed explanation-3: -Plains Native Americans lived in both sedentary and nomadic communities. They farmed corn, hunted, and gathered, establishing diverse lifestyles and healthy diets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many tribes, including the Crow and Arapaho (pronounced uh-RAH-puh-hoh), survived by following bison herds as they migrated from place to place. These groups needed homes that could be quickly taken down and rebuilt again, so they lived in tent-like structures made of buffalo skins called tepees.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Plains Indians were dependent on the buffalo as their main source of food, clothing, tools, and housing materials. They were thus nomads because their way of life depended on following the herds of buffalo as they grazed on lands throughout the Great Plains.