Adoption credit. You can claim a tax credit for up to $13,170 of adoption expenses paid in 2010. If you adopt a child with special needs, you get the full credit even if the adoption cost less. The credit starts to phase out once your adjusted gross income exceeds $182,520.
Native Americans. in Olden Times for Kids. advertisement. advertisement. A tepee (tipi, teepee) is a Plains Indian home. It is made of buffalo hide fastened around very long wooden poles, designed in a cone shape. Tepees were warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Some were quite large. They could hold 30 or 40 people comfortably. Tepee Poles: The 15-foot poles were sometimes hard to find.
No, the Chinook Indians did not live in teepees. Indians on the Northwest Coast lived in cedar long houses, sometimes called plank houses. These houses were from 50 to 100 feet long and made of split cedar logs. There is a good example of a plank house at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge in Ridgefieldâ¦.he Chinook Indians have lived (and still do) in their ancestral homelands for about 10,000 years. The ancestral homeland of the Chinook people is:From West to East from the mouth of the Columbia River East to the present day Oregon city The Dalles.