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tipis?
Hey WhoMe.... even a bit farther north, Inuit folks around the arctic sea and northwest hudson's bay area, as well as Inupiaq folks in NW AK used to use a summer time tent called a "tupik." It was kind of a conical hide (usually seal) cover over a framework of poles (or in some areas w/o a lot of wood, whale ribs). Even had that off center lean to it like a tipi. But they're way smaller than even the Canadian Dene structures... just enough for 3 or four people. There was one in that movie Atarnarjuat, where four folks were sleeping with their heads out the "door". Anyway, I think it's in Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton's book on Nat Am architecture, they propose that tupiks and tipis may have been developed from the same basic earlier structures....
I've also heard that the Ona and Yaghan peoples of Tierra del Fuego (the very southern tip of South America) used a tipi-like dwelling - at least seasonally. I can't verify that, but it would definately be interesting if that's the case....
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