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Plain homes?
Answer for the clue "Plain homes? ", 6 letters:
tepees
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Usage examples of tepees.
Indian, had given him meats, nuts, vegetables to eat, leather and feathers for his clothing, poles for his tepees, bones for his dishes, the ribs of field mice for his fishhooks, hemp for his rope, and skins for his canoes.
In winter they built snow fences on the north side of their tepees, and gathered plenty of buffalo chips and firewood.
I was six years old, but even today after 500 moons have passed, I can remember the long, hot, dusty journey with scores of ponies struggling over the parched land dragging our tepees and other supplies.
Within two or three hours the tepees in our village were taken down, packed on drags, and we were moving out of the Big Horn Basin toward the Black Hills and the plains.
It was 200 miles from our village of tepees to the big, unpainted schoolhouse and dormitories and a white church with a steeple that pointed to the residence of the God we were to learn about.
The fur of the beaver, bear, fox, elk and caribou, and even the buffalo, was a dependable source of supplies for Indians of the plains, providing them with food for their tables, fur for their clothing, hides for their tepees, and chips for heating their homes.
The women of many tribes, including the Sioux, took down and put up the lodges or tepees when the people moved.
Sioux Indians went into the Black Hills to gather lodge poles for their tepees and wild fruits.
The Pawnees had died in their cold tepees by the fifties, the soldiers lay dead in the trenches without the fort, and many a gay French voyageur, who had thought to go singing down the Missouri on his fur-laden raft in the springtime, would never again see the lights of St.
Indians, sixty souls in each, lying dead and distorted from the plague in their desolate tepees, you do not pray, if you are a man like Father de Smet.
The hut was well in the shadow of tepees, and all were still at the feasting and merrymaking.
The word conjures up tepees and buffalo to some people when it should bring to mind pickup trucks and convenience stores.