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Today the covers are made of heavy canvas, stitched in overlapping layers. The poles are still made from traditional lodgepole pines.

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The tepee is made from branches from trees, and deer, or buffalo hide.

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The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota Sioux made their tipis out of buffalo hide. When the buffalo were gone, they were given canvas by the federal government to build their structures.

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Tepees are made of buffalo skin. -Vanessa!!

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The teepees used long wooden poles as support (3 or 4 main supports and 10 to 20 secondary supports)and these were covered with buffalo hides.

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buffalo hide

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