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Noun(1) a Native American tent; usually of conical shape(2) a native American tent(3) usually of conical shape

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(1) 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.(2) From a long way off they could see u2018the wide plain, a small lake, tepee upon tepee , hundreds of them, all in a large circleu2019 and hear the beating of drums and the barking of countless dogs.(3) 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.(4) 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.(5) There are tents and teepees and refreshment stalls around the main gates and the main camp in Bluebell Wood.(6) One day, when I was in Grade Three, my school teacher decided to use me as an example of how aboriginal people no longer live in teepees or wigwams.(7) We saw tents and teepees and herds of buffalo on the way east and then we hit some rolling hills and in the distance we saw some mountains that only got higher the further north they went.(8) 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.(9) At the park today you can imagine Cheyenne teepees dotting the grass 200 years ago or lookouts hidden in the hills, despite the suburbs that now cover them.(10) It is amusing to see blonde Germans peeking out from under feather headdresses and holding powwows by teepees .(11) Many were genre scenes showing everyday Indian life featuring teepees and mounted warriors in traditional costume.(12) To put the canvas on the tipi poles, the cover is laid out on the ground, the lifting pole is laid over the cover's middle and the cover is tied to the pole.(13) The Native American tipi was used mainly by nomadic Indians of the Great Plains.(14) Convinced that the American Indian tipi is the best structure ever conceived by humans, I began to collect information on them.(15) Some parks rent cabins, yurts, tepees , even covered wagons.(16) About 19 pine poles, each averaging 18 feet in length, comprised the tipi 's frame.