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A wigwam is made of a conical or dome-shaped framework of wooden poles lashed together and covered with sheets of birch bark. Often the bark sheets were removable and could be rolled up and carried to another campsite, where another framework was already in place ready to be covered as a temporary shelter. It follows that wigwams were only made in areas where suitable trees could be found to provide supple poles and sheets of bark.

Some people today call buffalo-hide tipis "wigwams", but this is incorrect.

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"Wigwam" comes from a Natick word wekuwomut, "in his house". It is used in English as the name of a wide range of dwellings built by the eastern woodlands tribes, almost always on a framework of poles covered with sheets of tree bark or woven mats of plant fibre.

Wigwams could be dome-shaped (with the support poles bent over and fixed at their tops), cone-shaped or sometimes with an oval or rectangular ground plan. They were generally quite small.

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Wigwams are specifically covered with sheets of birch bark, a material that is simply not available in the regions occupied by the Cheyenne.

Both Northern and Southern Cheyenne lived in tipis covered with buffalo hides, they did not use wigwams.

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It is made of wood, sticks, and mud. Also, they're made of birch bark, oak bark and elm bark.

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Its sometimes made out of wood,grass,brush,bark,mats,reeds,or cloth.

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A fire pit and animal skin beds.

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actually silk and sticks

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grass

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boffalo

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