Teepee is a portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by North American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions. A tipi, often called a lodge in English, is a conical tent, historically made of animal hides or pelts, and in more recent generations of canvas, stretched on a framework of wooden poles. The word is Siouan, and in use in Dakhótiyapi, Lakßótiyapi, and as a loanword in US and Canadian English, where it is sometimes spelled phonetically as teepee and tepee. The nomadic tribes that followed the buffalo lived in teepees or tipis. The teepees were designed to be set up quickly and broken down so the tribes could easily move around. New York State Fingerlakes region
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