TEPEE

or tipiboth: tēˈpē, typical dwelling of Native North Americans living on the Great Plains. It was usually made by arranging tent poles into a conical frame and spreading skins, usually buffalo hide, tightly over it. An aperture was generally left at the top for smoke. The tepee was sometimes very elaborately decorated. It was highly mobile, being dragged by a horse when the tribe was on the move, and provided a strong shelter against the weather; it was thus an ideal dwelling for the nomadic Plains area tribes such as the Sioux and the Blackfoot. Because of the adaptability of the tepee to prairie life, Gen. Henry Sibley used it as a model for the tent that bears his name.

See R. Laubin and G. Laubin, The Indian Tipi (1957, repr. 1971).

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books on: Tepee  - 573 results

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Masterpieces of American Indian Literature
Book by Willis G. Regier; University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Subjects: American Literature--Indian Authors, Canadian Literature--Indian Authors, Indians Of North America, Indians Of North America--Literary Collections
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Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
Book by John S. Gray; University of Nebraska Press, 1991
Subjects: Dakota Indians--Wars, 1876--Scouts And Scouting, Scouts And Scouting--Montana--Biography, Soldiers--United States--Biography
...18. The Descent to the Lone Tepee 244 19...5. Itineraries: Descent to the Lone Tepee 251 6. 6. Itineraries: The Lone Tepee to the Little Bighorn 272...
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Book by Marie L. McLaughlin; University of Nebraska Press, 1990
Subjects: Dakota Indians--Folklore, Mdewakanton Indians--Folklore
...our little grandchild go away from our tepee." But the cousin answered: "Oh, do let...the little girls cousin came home to her tepee, some rough boys who were playing about...for the little rabbit. As he lay in the tepee his adopted mothers little friends brought...
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer
Book by Thomas B. Marquis; University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Subjects: Cheyenne Indians--Biography, Cheyenne Indians--Social Life And Customs, Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1876, Little Bighorn, Battle Of The, Mont., 1876, Wooden Leg--1858-1940
...awakened from time to time and peered out from the tepee flaps. Last Bull, asleep in a small tepee with his wife, was startled by the snorting...aroused man had no gun, so he crept under his tepee wall and into the next one, there to borrow a...
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An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians
Book by Morris Edward Opler; University of Nebraska Press, 1996
Subjects: Chiricahua Indians--Social Life And Customs
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The Indian Problem as a Woman's Question: S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Journal article by Melissa Ryan; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 21, 2007
Subjects: Callahan, S. Alice--Criticism and interpretation, Cultural criticism, Ethnic identity--Portrayals, Ethnicity--Portrayals, Feminist criticism, Feminist literary criticism, Native Americans--Portrayals, Wynema, A Child of the Forest (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...felicities. What begins as a novel about the "Tepee Indians" (Callahan 5) and becomes for a...from the nearest trading point, in a tepee, dwelt the parents of our heroine when...characterization of the Creek people as "Tepee Indians" as a particularly significant...
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Refracting the Imperial Gaze onto the Colonizers: Geronimo Poses for the Empire
Journal article by Alexia Kosmider; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 15, 2001
Subjects: Colonization--United States, Exhibitions--Social aspects, Imperialism--United States, Native Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., United States--History
...the fair leaning against the side of a tepee, but she does not dwell upon such fissures...travel writer peers into the interior of a tepee, desiring to see the forbidden space that...informs her readers: "In this camp stands a tepee which is tightly closed and remains so...
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On the Meeting Grounds of Sentiment: S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Journal article by Susan Bernardin; ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly), Vol. 15, 2001
Subjects: Americanization--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Callahan, S. Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Imperialism--Literature, Native American literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wynema: A Child of the Forest (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...culturally erroneous designations such as "Tepee Indians," suggests Callahans efforts to...whose cultivation of sympathy towards the "Tepee Indians" offers the reader a lesson in...transformation of the former village of "Tepee Indians" into a peaceful interracial town...
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The Affect of the Market: Economic and Racial Exchange in the Searchers
Journal article by Jonathan Freedman; American Literary History, Vol. 12, 2000
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism
...accompanied by the kind of race mixing that the trading scene in the tepee enacts; it was also accompanied by the kinds of cultural blurring...as thoroughly race-mixed as that encountered in the Indian tepee. As opposed to the first white community we see -- monolithically...
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Politics, Performance and Indian Identity
Journal article by Lucy Maddox; American Studies International, Vol. 40, 2002
Subjects: Citizenship--Social aspects, Indian Allotment Act of 1887, Native Americans--Appreciation
...kind of a tepee, and I had good health. Now when they give us a house to...Exposition, Dixon arranged to have one Indian step out of the model tepee and strike the pose of the proposed memorial statue, fingers...
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Not a Plain(s) Tepee
Magazine article by Leah Morgan, Annie Bex; School Arts, Vol. 95, May-June 1996
Subjects: Art--Study and teaching, Arts education--Curricula, Native Americans--Study and teaching
Not a Plain(s) tepee by Leah Morgan , Annie Bex Erecting a 16(5 m) tepee on our school grounds created a vast area of experiences...American cultures. The school board had purchased a tepee cover which came without poles and other necessities...
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Jaune Quick-to-See-See Smith
Magazine article by Marilyn Stewart; School Arts, Vol. 95, May-June 1996
Subjects: Native American artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...imagine a house, few people would imagine a tepee. on the other hand, if asked to imagine the place where American Indians live, a tepee image would all too quickly emerge for...large painting, with the outline of the tepee extending throughout the space, celebrating...
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LONG JOURNEY ACROSS SIBERIA - in One of the Most Ambitious Drives Ever Undertaken, Native Reindeer Herders Attempt to Rekindle a Traditional Way of Life
Magazine article by Bryan Alexander; International Wildlife, March 2001
Subjects: Reindeer--Observations
...edge of a forest in northwestern Siberia, smoke rises from a tepee-style tent. Inside, Gallina Vello tends a wood- burning stove...distance, we see the herd grazing, and behind them the distinctive tepee shape of a Forest Nenets tent. As we approach, several figures...
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Tipi at Pompidou Houses Experimental Solos
Magazine article by Karyn Bauer; Dance Magazine, Vol. 73, October 1999
Subjects: Ballet--Performances, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou--Maintenance and repair
...Pompidou has always existed, it is biological. Putting it into the tepee, however, was not an easy task. "I invited a lot of dancers...wigwam kind of thing," he says. What he found was the oversized tepee with no in-house plumbing or changing rooms. "It was a very...
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On the Rez: The Writer, an Admirer of Indian Traditions of Freedom and Heroism, Visits an Old Friend on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Explores the Place, and Discovers a Modern-Day Indian Hero
Magazine article by Ian Frazier; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, December 1999
Subjects: Crow, SuAnne Big, Dakotas (Native Americans), Lance, Le War, Native American culture, United States history
...cumulus clouds pile up for miles above. We passed a tepee made of white canvas, a tepee made of weathered white plyboard, a Quonset hut...pennants of colored cloth hanging from the ends of the tepee poles. People indicate their campsite boundaries...
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PEUGEOT'S NEW TEPEE PROVIDES PLENTY OF POW-WOW; Vehicle Aimed at Minibus, Taxi and Family Markets COMMERCIAL MOTORS
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 21, 2007
Subjects: Automobile industry, Buses, Buses (Transportation)
PEUGEOTS NEW TEPEE PROVIDES PLENTY OF POW-WOW; Vehicle Aimed...Byline: By John Connor THE title Expert Tepee is like something straight out of the Silly...up to nine people and their luggage, the Tepee is targeting the minibus and airport taxi...
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Tales from the Tepee St. Petronille Students Learn American Indian Culture and Traditions
Newspaper article by Sara Hooker; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 28, 2004
Tales from the Tepee St. Petronille Students Learn American...The eighth-grade students in Jon Jordans tepee gave a collective "ewww!" when he described...sat with legs crossed in his 20-foot-tall tepee. "Nowadays we grow up and we can go run...
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Peugeot Hopes to Make Tepee Van a Big Chief in the Family MPV Market; FIRST DRIVE Peugeot Partner Tepee
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), May 16, 2008
Subjects: Automobile industry, Peugeot S.A.
Peugeot Hopes to Make Tepee Van a Big Chief in the Family MPV Market; FIRST DRIVE Peugeot Partner Tepee. Byline: By Steve Hughes PEUGEOTS design...cargo-carrying capability. When Peugeots new Partner Tepee goes on sale from next month it will aim to...
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Spacious Tepee a Perfect Partner for the Family
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), November 21, 2008
Subjects: Automobile industry, Peugeot S.A.
Spacious Tepee a Perfect Partner for the Family. Byline...the Citroen Berlingo, the Peugeot Partner Tepee is a compact MPV derived from a van and...or objects or both and, all in all, the Tepee states a good and appealing case, especially...
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Tepee's Tops for Families; STEVE HUGHES Drives the Partner Tepee, Peugeot's New People Carrier
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 16, 2008
Subjects: Automobile industry, Peugeot S.A.
...Families; STEVE HUGHES Drives the Partner Tepee, Peugeots New People Carrier. Byline...luggage too. When Peugeots new Partner Tepee goes on sale next month it will aim to...car-like handling with van-like volumes. The Tepee will be based on the new Partner van, on...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tepee  - 8 results

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Tepee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TEPEE or tipi both: te pe, typical dwelling of Native North...An aperture was generally left at the top for smoke. The tepee was sometimes very elaborately decorated. It was highly mobile...Sioux and the Blackfoot. Because of the adaptability of the tepee to prairie life, Gen. Henry Sibley used it as a model for...
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Tipi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TIPI see tepee . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Wigwam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...word is incorrectly extended to almost all Native North American dwellings including the earth lodge and sometimes even the tepee and the wickiup. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Peyotism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...whites, peyote came to the Native Americans. The peyote rite lasts from sunset to sunrise and is usually held in a Plains-type tepee. The rite has four major elements: prayer, singing, eating the sacramental peyote, and contemplation. The religion probably...
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Salish
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...After the introduction of the horse the Salish adopted a Plains culture, including the hunting of buffalo and the use of the tepee. They fought a series of wars with the Blackfoot over hunting land. The Jesuit missionary Pierre Jean De Smet , who in 1841...
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