USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-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 bison provided them with meat for food, hides for clothing and shelter, and horns and bones for tools. They would even use the bladder to hold water. For the Plains Indians, bison equaled survival.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tipis are the conical skin-or canvas-covered dwellings used by the Plains Indians as permanent or seasonal dwellings. The Sioux word tipi literally translates as “used to live in.” In the nineteenth century each tipi accommodated, on average, eight to ten adults and children.

Detailed explanation-5: -tepee, also spelled tipi, conical tent most common to the North American Plains Indians.