How To Use Tepee In A Sentence
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The tepees, the yoga kiva, the pre-massage ritual of burning sage to ward off evil spirits - are all nods to an ancient way of life.
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He looked into David's room and found him fast asleep in the opening to his Indian tepee.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The Indians improvised breastworks on nearby hillsides and fought back but could only watch helplessly as soldiers burned tepees, blankets, and sacred objects, destroyed tons of dried buffalo meat, and seized 750 ponies and a thousand buffalo robes.
Between War and Peace
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From a long way off they could see ‘the wide plain, a small lake, tepee upon tepee, hundreds of them, all in a large circle’ and hear the beating of drums and the barking of countless dogs.
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It also involves sleeping out under canvas or tepees during the summer months and in shared rooms in the farmhouse in the autumn and winter.
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Does the Registered Architects' Board have to employ someone who understands tepee building or Mongolian yurts?
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Plant two different vines on one tepee for a two-tone treatment.
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Plains Indians, in contrast, erected tentlike tepees, constructed out of poles wrapped with buffalo skins.
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These included decorative artifacts, painted tepees that served as card rooms, and a series of so-called ‘picture writing’ panels that depicted the war records of individual Blackfeet intertribal war veterans.
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There is also an 1830 Conestoga wagon, an observation platform of a railroad car, and a replica of a Tepee.
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Some parks rent cabins, yurts, tepees, even covered wagons.
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The tepee-like tents and crude hide huts that comprise tauren towns stand in stark contrast to the turning windmills and pulley structures that keep the tauren grainmills operating.
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He planted an unusual orange-flowered nasturtium relative, Tropaeolum tuberosum, on this tepee and surrounded it with monkshood, a purple perennial.
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For the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Lakotas raised their tepees along the Missouri River and its tributaries as far west as the Black Hills.
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Six-foot stalks of soybeans are piled in lean-tos and tepees along a rutted dirt road.
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There is also an 1830 Conestoga wagon, an observation platform of a railroad car, and a replica of a Tepee.
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The exhibition's articulate and straightforward documentation —diagrams and explanations about history, geography and culture—increase one's understanding about tepees and the various Plains people who inhabited them, as does the well-illustrated catalog, with its series of fascinating essays edited by the show's lead curators, Nancy B. Rosoff and Susan Kennedy Zeller.
The Art Behind the Narrative
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All day tepee poles, lodge skins, dried meat, cooking utensils, and other paraphernalia from the abandoned Sioux village were stacked in huge piles and set afire.
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The Indians also have the skill to pack up their tepees and travois and set them up elsewhere.
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Pitkin County government sued to boot the Auster family from the Hummingbird, on the grounds that the tepee was a non-conforming structure under the land-use code.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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Others have been camping out in tree-houses and tepees for four-and-a-half years, making this the longest-running protest site in Britain.
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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The original neo-Gothic chapel fell victim to subsidence and was replaced in 1963 with a tepee-like structure covered in copper.
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Clustered around it are a choice of ecodwellings, including wooden cabins on stilts, clay huts with thatched roofs, large tepees and round tents sleeping one.
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And after awhile he tells himself that he don't mind smoke and the smell of buckskin, and a tepee is a better home nor none, and that he thinks as much of this here Mary Moonbeam or Sally Star-eyes as he could think of any woman, and he wonders when the priest could come.
'Me--Smith'
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Most of them could speak a few words of English, but not so Little Wolf-Willow, who arrived from his prairie tepee dressed in buckskin and moccasins, a pretty string of white elks 'teeth about his throat, and his long, straight, black hair braided in two plaits, interwoven with bits of rabbit skin.
The Shagganappi
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The 7 boys built and slept in a 20 foot high tepee, and the 3 girls made a bender.
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In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
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Far down the line of brightly painted longboats I saw a fisherman who owned just one net, which he had draped on a tepee of bamboo stalks to dry in the sun.
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Troy made a fabulous war bonnet and reported on the Plains Indians replete with buffalo, tepee, and travois information.
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Then another full day to set up the tepee and the wickiup.
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(also spelled "banya," a traditional Russian steam bath) planned to erect a 21-foot tepee with a sauna inside.
Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
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I ask if he would be so kind as to take me back to his tepee for a short powwow, and we walk down a sidewalk to a small patch of grass outside the rodeo arena.
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Believing they had left the conflict behind them, they rested, cut tepee poles and cooked camas in preparation for their journey to the buffalo country of eastern Montana.
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A tepee is a temporary home; the wigwam is the Indian's permanent abiding place.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods
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Make a bamboo or twig tepee for your kids, and cover it with an annual vine such as scarlet runner bean.
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Meanwhile, water is blowing in through the tepee's door, drenching the tom-toms and blankets.
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At the Lodgepole Gallery and Tipi Village, flanked by two brightly painted Blackfeet tepees and Spanish mustang horses, we lie in our tepee, smelling prairie sage on the ever-present breeze.
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I lived with various communes of people in share houses, or on shared land, I lived in tepees, in cars, in tents, in a bedroll.
