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An Oglala Lakota tipi, 1891. A tipi or tepee (/ ˈ t iː p i / TEE-pee) is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles.
During the protohistoric and historic periods, tipi rings were created in the mountains by the Ute people. Sites on the plains belonged to Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne and Comanche people. [1] Northern mountain and foothills: Indian Mountain near Boulder [1] T-W Diamond site in the Rocky Mountain foothills near Fort Collins. [1] Northeastern plains
The Wyandot (also called Huron) and Erie people, both Iroquoian peoples, also built longhouses, as did the Algonquian peoples, such as the Lenni Lenape, who lived from western New England in Connecticut, along the lower Hudson River, and along the Delaware River and both sides of the Delaware Bay.
The site is located on a promontory above the western bank of the Cuyahoga River near Independence, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and seven miles from Lake Erie. It was listed with the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1976. [9] A historic marker is located on the Towpath Trail in Valley View, Ohio. [10]
The site now includes a 9,000-square-foot (840 m 2) museum covering 1500 years of American Indian heritage in the Ohio Valley. Topics include North America's earliest people, the development of agriculture , and the impact of Europeans who migrated to the area and came into conflict with the Native Americans then living in region.
The original Pueblo style was based on the Anasazi people, [1] who began building square cliff dwellings around 1150 CE, featuring subterranean chambers and circular ceremonial rooms. [2] [1] Over time, Pueblo architecture evolved into the construction of permanent, angular homes made from limestone blocks or adobe—a mixture of clay and water ...
The known boundaries of Erie lands extended from the Allegheny River to the shores of Lake Erie. They were once believed, due to a misidentification of villages by early French explorers mapping the Great Lakes, to control all the land from northwestern Pennsylvania to about Sandusky, Ohio, but archaeologists have now attributed the western half of that to another culture referred to as the ...
As the Native Americans did not have immunity, the new diseases resulted in high fatalities in widespread areas. The Monongahela culture was progressively disappearing before the time the Iroquois League invaded the Allegheny Plateau through to the Lake Erie region in an effort to control new hunting grounds for the lucrative fur trade. The ...