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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.

If you wish to ask about historic tipis, you need to phrase the question in the past tense.

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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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