USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plains Indian tribes created teepees, which were made out of bison skins laid over wooden poles. These tribes lived in the Great Plains region of the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some historians estimate there were once as many as 50 million buffalo roaming the Great Plains. Native American tribes like the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Ute all relied on the buffalo for their survival.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -They moved permanently onto the Plains from the woodlands of Minnesota, following the roaming buffalo herds from place to place across the great grasslands. Along with other neighboring equestrian tribes, the Lakota people relied on the buffalo as their primary resource for meat, housing, tools, and clothing.

Detailed explanation-5: -To stay cool, they lived in dome-shaped shelters called wigwams, which were made of young trees, bark, and cattails. These wampum beads were carved from quahog and whelk shells.