The fire has done no damage here as yet, the axe has left no trace, there are no houses, no sign of man except occasional teepee poles.
The Chipewyan teepee is very distinctive; fifty years ago all were of caribou leather, now most are of cotton; not for lack of caribou, but because the cotton does not need continual watching to save it from the dogs.
Chief Squirrel lives in a lodge that is an admirable combination of the white men's tent with its weather-proof roof and the Indian teepee with its cosy fire.
In the grove where we camped after sundown were the teepee and shack of an Indian (Chipewyan) Brayno (probably Brenaud).
Charley finally issued out of the teepee beaten, and the little carcasses flew out of the door after him, propelled by a vigorous foot.
Within the circle of the teepee Charley's wife, Loseis, was mixing dough in a pan.
When the old man came to his teepee she was working around it with a highly indifferent air.
The row in Charley's teepee had started early that morning.
Children and dogs loafed and rolled in aimless ecstasy, and the whole people sat at the teepee openings blinking comfortably.
At the door of his teepee he picked up the two little carcasses and entered.
There was a silence in theteepee while it sunk in.
She followed her into the teepee and unexpectedly seized and kissed her.
His teepee was beside the river, a little removed from the others.
At dawn she stole out of the teepee without arousing anybody, and set forth down the river in her dugout alone.
That night on his way back Sam saw that a teepee had been pitched beside the road near the stopping-house.
The position of his teepee suggested his social status.
Rube, on the contrary, found the teepee stifling, in spite of the wide-open door flap.
They took him into an empty teepee and there bound his legs together and mounted a guard outside so that he could not possibly escape.
Kiddie therefore packed up the teepee and the stores in the canoe and left the latter ready for launching.
He found a good place on a stretch of sloping ground between two high rocks at the edge of the lake, and in a very little time the teepee was erected, a fire well kindled, and the camp in order.
He did not look back while carrying the long teepeepoles through the narrow ways between the closely-growing trees.
He was reclining between the teepee and the fire with his open note-book on his knee and a blacklead pencil in his fingers.
This was an interesting experiment, in the series of efforts, by the missionaries, to change this tribe of nomads from their roving teepee life to that of permanent dwellers in fixed habitations.
During all this time, he lived in a teepee of buffalo skins, subsisted upon wild rice and the fruits of the chase, never entered a house nor heard the English language spoken, and was taught to distrust and hate the white man.
And now some sedate matron rises and reads a carefully written paper, contrasting their past, vile teepee life of ignoble servitude to Satan, with their present, pure life of glorious liberty in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But neither was there any wind to carry off the smoke, so it hung, as the teepee smoke hangs at sunrise, and it drifted over the valleys and forests in a blue haze.
She is looking for the camp, She would come back if she could; She still peeps thro' the tree-tops For the teepeein the wood.
Search every teepee for this fellow who was lying here.
When the teepee grew foul, which their habits made inevitable, a simple and satisfactory remedy was discovered in a shift to another camp-ground.
Indian, and, turning on his heel, he passed into the teepee where his boy lay.
Through the teepeewall their voices could be heard in quiet conversation.
Inside the teepeeupon some skins and blankets lay the boy, whose bright eyes and flushed cheeks proclaimed fever.
From behind a teepee some distance away there appeared the figure of the "Big Chief" whom he so greatly desired to see.
Come along, Chief, we must be going," he said, putting his head inside the teepee door.
Through every teepee they searched in hot haste, tumbling out squalling squaws and papooses.
The Indian led the way to the teepee that stood slightly apart from the others.
There is a sick boy in here," said Cameron, pointing to the teepee behind him.
Instantly every teepeewas pulsing with the fever of war.
They cut the teepee poles and set up their tents; and when not occupied with these more severe labors, they spend their time in making moccasins, weaving baskets, or fancy sewing and bead-work.
Early in the afternoon we came to our camping place on the banks of the Simpson River, where a great number of teepee poles proved this to be a favorite resort among the Indians.
For some offenses a convict was exiled from the camp, given an old teepee and a blanket, but no arms, and was allowed to make a living if he could.
This might be the death penalty, exile or whipping; or it might be the destruction of the teepee and other property of the convict.
Scott in his Vacation Diary: Making a Teepee Sew canvas together making oblong ABCD 20 by 10 feet; with E as centre and EA as a radius, draw half-circle AFD.
Make tripod of nine of these and tie teepee at E to pole two feet from top and place over tripod.
In addition to the different styles of tents shown in the illustrations on page 43, the following description of how to make a ten-foot teepee is given by Charles R.
Many years ago a woman made a teepee of deer-skin; and was taken suddenly ill, and died immediately after.
Your cousin told me your father had chosen him to carry you into the teepee of the old man.
In the teepee the farthest from us, right on the edge of the shore, there are three young men carousing.
They tore me away from my lover, and made me come to the teepee of the chief," was her bitter reflection.
The teepee of the warrior is lonely when he returns from hunting," said he to the maiden.
The soldiers found out from the old chief the teepee of the revellers.
The women brought ducks on board, and in exchange we gave them bread; and it was evening as we watched the last teepeeof Shah-co-pee's village fade away in the distance.
He ordered his men not to take her life; she was to be as safe in his teepee as if she were his wife or child.
She had wept the more when her mother told her that in four days she was to go to the teepee of her husband.
There goes "White Buffalo" with his two wives, the first wife with the teepee on her back and her child on the top of it.
Having smoked, the Doctor goes to the teepee of the patient, takes a seat at some distance from him, divests himself of coat or blanket, and pulls his leggins to his ankles.
This appeal had its effect, for the young men left the teepee together.
He went into the teepee and lighted his pipe, and then, seating himself outside, began to smoke.
Sam and Yan carried the Coon between them on a stick, and before they reached the teepee they agreed that the carcass weighed at least eighty pounds.
Yan was the chief expert with the rubbing-sticks, and within a minute or two he had the fire going in the middle of the teepee and Sam set about preparing the evening meal.
Yan hobbled into theteepee and reached down Sam's tobacco bag.
Yan, did ye iver hear of a teepee linin' or a dew-cloth?
To give air, the teepee cover was raised on the shady side and the circle of visitors was partly in the teepee and partly out.
Thus in the forest teepee Yan had his first lesson in the art that was to give him so much joy and some sorrow in the future.
The smoke hung heavy in the top of the teepee and kept crowding down until it became unpleasant.
Now look at that," as one huge spark after another exploded from the fire and dropped on the bed and the teepee cover.
He brought in an armful of wood and made the inside of the teepee a blaze of cheerful light.
The instant he found himself outside the teepee with Nina in his arms he darted back of it and into the brush.
Leading him to a teepee not far away she pushed aside the skin that hung over the door.
As he was a great hindrance to them, they put up a teepee on the bank of the Stinking Water for him, and told him to remain there until they returned.
That night I slept in the teepee of an Omaha Indian.
One day, when he returned to his teepeefrom a long wandering, he felt a pain in his left foot, and lo!
Willingly Unktomee threw down his load upon the lake shore, and with the utmost good nature began to build a little teepee of sticks, thatching it with the dry grass.
The grass teepee fell to pieces, and the lucky ones flew away; but lying on the ground beside Unktomee were enough fat Ducks for a fine feast!
All by itself at the further end of the village stands the teepee of Smoky Day, the old story-teller, the school-master of the woods.
With rustling wings and shining feathers they crowded into the little teepee until it could hold no more.
Old Smoky Day laughs heartily at the sight, standing just outside his teepee door to watch for the coming of the children.
Let all the people retire, for I must be alone in order to work a cure," declared the supposed medicine-man, as he entered the teepee of the water monster.
When he's got away with half the box, he tucks the balance onder his blanket an' retires to his teepee with a look of gratitoode on his face.
With the last flicker of my failin' strength, I crawls to my old gent's teepee an' is took in.
Back at the Teepee we found a detective and a policeman.
But coming home to the Teepee one winter afternoon about five, I found that he had forestalled me by calling first.
IV* Early in this campaign for the reformatory our peaceful life in the Teepee was shaken up by the advent of Nina.
Shortly after we moved into the Teepee a letter came from Ann which was bulkier than usual.
She has turned the Teepee into an informal sort of a rescue mission.
Another chief stalked into the teepee and seated himself.
He crossed the clearing to where the renegades' teepee stood.
The teepee was small, but there I found a sick man who listened to the Word.
The teepee would not contain half the listeners, so for some time in the middle of winter the meetings were held in the campus, then in a great dark garret over a warehouse, without other fire than spiritual.
For a time a teepee where no one was sick could scarcely be found, and it was a rare day when there was no funeral.
When you do miss your way, the first thing to remember is, like the Indian, "You are not lost; it is the teepee that is lost.
All day long he climbed saying to himself, "I will sleep tonight in the teepee of the sun, and he will tell me whence I come and whither I go.
Before they knew it, old men and women were lined up before the teepee home, ready to receive the meat, in answer to his invitation.
The little boy got on his pet pony and rode through the camp, telling the old folks to come to his mother's teepee for meat.
I ran to my teepeeand seized my gun, a bow, and a quiver full of arrows.
Yet during the following ten years of defensive war he was never known to make a speech, though his teepee was the rendezvous of the young men.
The first p'inter the Major gets of a new deal in his destinies is a grand crash as the entire teepee upheaves an' goes over, kerwallop!
At last he allows that he aims to pitch his teepee in Wolfville, hang out a shingle, an' plunge into joorisprudence.
Also, the Black Cloud was rich; his teepee was sumptuous, an' he's left a buckskin coat with ivory elk teeth sewed onto it plenty as stars at night.
The Black Cloud is a Osage medicine man an' has high repoote about Greyhoss where he's pitched his teepee an' abides.
Wait ontil the Lance is in his own teepee on the Polecat; then come.
Redfield expressed a word of hope, and in that spirit the ranger mounted and rode away back toward the small teepee wherein Wetherford was doing his best to expiate his past--a past that left him old and friendless at fifty-five.
On the cold and silent side of the great divide the faint light of the shepherd's teepee shone, and with a returning sense of his duty to his fellows on the roof of the continent, Cavanagh pushed onward.
I reached the teepee in which I had spent the night, and flung myself down on the rude couch.
I was carried to a teepeeand shown a couch of dry fern.
Then he seemed to dismiss him, and the proud chief walked out of the teepee like a disconsolate schoolboy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teepee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
