USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -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-4: -Their survival depended on hunting buffalo. The Plains Indians acquired the vast majority of their food and materials from these animals. They therefore developed a nomadic (travelling) lifestyle in which they would follow the buffalo migrations across the Plains.

Detailed explanation-5: -noun. tee·pee. variant spelling of tepee. : a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains.