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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tipis were used mainly by Plains Indians, such as the Lipan Apache, Comanche and Kiowa, after the Spanish introduced horses into North America about 500 years ago. Plains Indians groups moved across the Great Plains following migrating herds of buffalo that ranged from Canada to Texas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Arapaho, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Plains Apache, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Shoshone, Sioux, and Tonkawa. and were all nomadic tribes who followed the buffalo herds and lived in tipis.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The most widely recognized of all American Indian homes, the teepee (or tipi) was used by the nomadic horse culture Plains Indians, including the Kiowa Apache, Blackfoot, Plains Cree, Cheyenne, Lakota, and Comanche.