2006 

Let’s look at the way American Indians lived on this continent; they roamed the land following the buffalo because it gave them almost everything they needed. In nature there is no waste, everything has some sort of purpose; buffalo was food, clothing, and housing. The tipis were frame and skin structures, lodge pine trees were abundant for the making of the frames. Families slept in one space, the hyper-interior, a sacred place covered in spiritual artwork painted on by the elders. Easy to disassemble the tipi came down in five minutes; and it only took fifteen minutes for two women to assemble it. The American Indians co-existed with their conditions, when it rained water trickled down the poles into their space, when it was summer they lifted the bottom flaps of the cover for the cold-air breeze.

The nomad can climb trees, billboards, freeway or parking structures to secure...