USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -tepee, also spelled tipi, conical tent most common to the North American Plains Indians . Although a number of Native American groups used similar structures during the hunting season, only the Plains Indians adopted tepees as year-round dwellings, and then only from the 17th century onward.

Detailed explanation-2: -All Plains peoples used tepees, although villagers resided for most of the year in earth lodges. The tepee is a conical tent, its foundation being either three or four poles; other poles placed around these formed a roughly circular base.

Detailed explanation-3: -The cone shaped tent design and steep incline of the tipi effectively sheds wind, snow, and rain. Tipi designs have been used by ancient peoples all over the world. Modern Tipis are the tent of choice for camping in extreme weather and expeditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -These include the Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and Tonkawa.

Detailed explanation-5: -Everyone now knows that the Lakota (Sioux) invented the teepee and that all teepee’s are made of buffalo hides. By the time that the White Man arrived, the Sioux invention had spread throughout the continent.