Conical living quarters

Usage examples of tepee.

Many small pine trees, brought from a considerable distance, were set up around the log cabin, and a sacred tepee, painted with spiritual symbols, had been erected for our dwelling.

I am coming and that a big tepee shall be built for me in the center of the nation.

When we had camped again, I was lying in our tepee and my mother and father were sitting beside me.

I went outside the tepee, and yonder where the men with flaming spears were going, a little cloud was coming very fast.

The wind was blowing from the south like fever, and when I looked around I saw that in nearly every tepee the women and the children and the men lay dying with the dead.

I looked, and where the flaming rainbow tepee, built and roofed with cloud, had been, I saw only the tall rock mountain at the center of the world.

Then I saw my own tepee, and inside I saw my mother and my father bending over a sick boy that was myself.

One day during this time I was out with the bow and arrows my Grandfather had made for me, and as I walked along thinking of my vision, suddenly I felt queer, and for a little while it seemed that the bow and arrows were those that the First Grandfather in the Flaming Rainbow Tepee had given me.

And I can remember his father talking to my father in our tepee while we were eating one evening.

They rode to the council tepee in the middle of the village and all the people were going there to hear.

The scouts then sat down before the door of the tepee and one of the advisers filled the sacred pipe with chacun sha sha, the bark of the red willow, and set it on a bison chip in front of him, because the bison was sacred and gave us both food and shelter.

I crawled up to a leaning tree beside a tepee and there was meat hanging on the limbs.

We cut plenty of tepee poles up along the creeks that came down the east side of the Black Hills, and there was all we wanted to eat, for the Hills were like a big food pack for our people.

He had to cut the rawhide thongs first, and then Red Deer, who was pulling up the stakes around that side of the tepee, was going to help drag the girl outside and gag her.

Now when it was getting light in the tepee, the girl awoke and the first thing she saw was a terrible animal, all white with black stripes on it, lying asleep beside her bed.