[upsdriver]

Just an FYI, Native Americans DO NOT live in tepees. They’re not that hardy nor that stupid.

[KeyLargo]

"Just an FYI, Native Americans DO NOT live in tepees. They’re not that hardy nor that stupid."

Yes, we know...

[CyberAnt]

You’re so right. Can you imagine why they would be in a building made of skin/cloth, and have to sit on the FROZEN ground; Lunacy .. and they’re not stupid.

[kingu]

But there are a number of American Indians who do know how to put up a lodge and looking at the way those lodges are put together is just painful. The skin is slack, which means they didn’t ‘diamond’ cut the poles to keep them from turning once planted in the ground (or didn’t put the bows out in the first place), the smoke flaps aren’t oriented right for conditions, there’s disrepair which should have long ago been fixed...

There are some American Indians who do live year round in lodges - they do so for a number of reasons (most often, because they make money from doing it.)

But ghads, all I see in that picture are a bunch of college ‘Native American Activist’ teepees which have zero clue how to deal with their tents. Hell, call them what they are, death traps.