The first lesson was given early in May, by Samuel Pond to Big Thunder chieftain of the Kaposia band, whose teepees were scattered over the bluffs, where now stands the city of St. Paul.
Nearby, scattered over the bluffs, were the teepees of Little Crow's band, forming the Sioux village of Kaposia.
Very soon, the sweet music of prayer and praise from the white teepees on the hillside, rose sweetly on the air, telling us that the day of their glad solemnities had begun.
They abandoned their homes and pitched their teepees closely together.
It was surrounded by the teepees of six hundred noisy savages.
In 1902, at the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the battle of New Ulm, by invitation of the citizens, a band of Sioux Indians pitched their teepees in the public square and participated in the exercises of the occasion.
The space between the teepees is absolutely unobstructed, but there are trees and bushes at the back and sides.
The teepees should be of canvas, unbleached cotton, or burlap fastened over three slender, strong poles, stuck into the ground.
The mother of the papoose, having finished her duties in setting one of the teepees to rights, now takes down the papoose from the tree where it swings, and seating herself in the center of the greensward, croons an Indian lullaby.
Of yore from isle and shore the smoke of Indian teepees [a] rose; The hunter plied the silent oar; the forest lay in still repose.
Wall, some jest lets the edges sag together, but the best teepees has a door made of the same stuff as the cover put tight on a saplin' frame an' swung from a lacin' pin.
Indians' teepees are often patched where bullets and arrows have gone through.
If she had thought of him as she would have thought of him years ago in the teepees of her race, she would have been content that he was a great "brave" and a "mighty hunter.
The fire burned low, and was replenished from the wood pile which stood between the two teepees standing a few yards away in the shadow of the bush which lined the trail.
The teepees around the lakes were gone, save one lonely dwelling.
At midnight the teepeeswere gone and there was left no sign of the village save heaps of dead ashes.
Afar to an eastern camp of cone-shaped teepees he was going.
Toward the latter part of the tenth season when, one by one, the teepees were folded and the families went away from the lake region, the mother walked again along the lake shore weeping.
That night the star men in their burial procession in the sky reached the low northern horizon, before the center fires within the teepeeshad flickered out.
Indian tribe: their camp ground, their teepees in a large circle, and the people laughing and dancing.
All teepees are wooden floored and each equipped with two single cot beds and bedding.
The teepees were set up along the banks of the creek, the great fire in the centre of the half-circle, and on the ground was the newly removed hide of a buffalo, while the savory smell of its roasting flesh still hung in the air.
The teepees were placed on the bank above the creek, and back of them ran the line of scrubby timber and the tangle of thick undergrowth through which Joe had worked his way.
Creeping up as close to the teepees as he could and still remain in shelter he looked and listened intently.
The French Captain saw only a few Indian teepees at the Forks, and ascended the Assiniboine.
Around these posts the voyageurs built a few cabins and this new centre of trade afforded a spot for the encampment near by of the Indian teepees made of tanned skins.
On a hot midsummer morning a few weeks later, while most of the inmates of the teepees were breakfasting in the open air, the powerful voice of the herald resounded among the pine-clad heights and green valleys.
There is no outside fire; but a dim light from within the skin teepees sheds a mellow glow over the camp, mingling with the light of a young moon.
Meanwhile the camp was astir with the returning youths and maidens, their horses' sides fringed with the long meadow grass, singing plaintive serenades around the circular rows of teepeesbefore they broke up for the night.
Matosapa has already circled the teepeeswith his inseparable brother-friend, Brave Elk.
Even the permanent dwellings of the Indians were empty, and all the teepees which had dotted with their white cones the west bank of the Minnesota had disappeared.
He put on his finest buckskin shirt and a handsome robe, threw a beaded quiver over his shoulder, and walked directly away from the teepees and into the forest--he did not know why nor whither.
The teepees are pitched quite near the shore, and the many bluffs that rise behind them seem to be their perpetual guards.
When the hunters had obtained a large number of those valued animals, the women struck their teepees and prepared for their return.
But to me, the greatest objects of interest and curiosity were the original owners of the country, whose teepees could be seen in every direction.
She reached the teepeesat last, and hastened to tell of her sorrows, and of the treachery of Hole-in-the-Day.
By the light of the moon the teepees were reflected in its waters.
One human figure was seen outside the many teepees that rose side by side in the village.
The fires in the teepees were not gone out; the smoke was ascending to the heavens; while the voices of the murdered Dahcotahs seemed to call upon their relatives for revenge.
Their teepees are always made of buffalo-skins; nothing would induce them to use deer-skin for that purpose.
The women plant the poles of their teepees firmly in the ground and cover them with a buffalo skin.
At length they entered their teepees to seek rest, and Harpstenah and her mother were the last at the door of their teepee, where a group had been seated on the ground, discussing their own and others' affairs.
Three teepees then remained, and they were occupied by seventeen persons, all women and children excepting four.
The habitations consisted of teepees and tents, while dug-outs were in course of construction in case of a storm.
The teepees had to be taken down and put in shape to be packed on ponies.
But echoes of these rifle-shots rang, too, in the teepees on the Western plains where the Piegans, the Bloods and the Blackfeet lay crouching and listening.
Irregularly strewn upon the grassy plain in the valley bottom some two dozen teepees marked the Piegan summer headquarters.
The teepees were searched, the squaws and papooses were ruthlessly bundled out from their slumbers and with the Indians were huddled into the Barracks.
Of the fiftyteepees at Fort Chipewyan, one or two only were of caribou but many had caribou-skin tops, as these are less likely to bum than those of cotton.
By invitation of the elder Williamson, we took a walk among the teepees of the natives who live on the ground.
The first night we came to three teepees of our own people at Large Lake, and held a meeting with them.
In the morning but one woman and a boy remained alive of the fourteen in the three teepees the night before, and the boy was badly wounded.
Mr. Pond was with Round Wind, who had removed from the three teepees that remained.
Forty or fifty teepees of Teetons were encamped there.
But in an hour or two, when the good doctor saw the teepees going up again, a couple of miles off, he was content to remain without a guard--there would not be war just then.
Among all the teepees and huts of that Indian reservation, as also throughout the barracks and quarters of the military post at Fort Sully, Mrs. Riggs was known, and the potent charm of her personal influence and home-life was deeply felt.
Four years elapsed before the new fort was completed, during which period its owners, like other trappers, lived in tents or teepees fashioned of buffalo-skins, after the manner of the Indians.
These scouts came back in less than half an hour, and reported a large number of teepees in a thick grove of timber a mile away.
Then they built her a lodge o' teepees in the heart o' the forest, where she was to live by herself.
They camped within sight of the Indian teepees and log huts, but they waited for morning before they approached the chief.
They were quiet in manner, and busy about theirteepees and camp-fires, but there was an absence of the curiosity that had characterized the former sojourns of Indians at the peaceful village.
One large circle of buffalo-skin teepees formed the movable village.
As we left our teepees in the morning, we were never sure that our scalps would not dangle from a pole in the afternoon!
Along the edge of the woods the teepeeswere pitched in groups or semi-circles, each band distinct from the others.
A large band of Sioux presently appeared, and set up their teepees hard by.
With them were also some of the roving Indians of the plains, with their conical teepees of dressed buffalo-skin.
The teepeesfaced a large lake, which we called Bedatanka.
The people, while they pitched their teepees upon the heights, if possible, for the sake of a good outlook, actually lived in their canoes upon the placid waters.
As our cone-shaped teepees rose in clusters along the outskirts of the heavy forest that clothes the sloping side of the mountain, the scene below was gratifying to a savage eye.
After supper was ended, we heard his powerful voice resound among the teepees in the forest.
The men to whom theseteepees belonged had been attacked by the Sioux while hunting buffalo, and nearly all killed.
The wives went a little way from their teepees and there audibly mourned; but the young maidens wandered further away from the camp, where no one could witness their grief.
If they were traveling, which the remains of theirteepees make them out to have been, then I guess they weren't doing it for health.
In vain glory an occasional log hut, with flattened reed roof, stood out surrounded by its complement of teepees to mark the petty chieftainship of its owner.
The black eyes glittered as the man threaded the trail toward the camp, where his own tent showed white amid the smoke-blackened teepees of the Indians.
The Indians can set up their teepees in the clearing, and build the cabins and the other buildings later.
The teepees faded, and in their place appeared rows of substantial log cabins, each with its door-yard of neatly trimmed grass, and its beds of gay flowers.
Out of the sleepy-looking teepees there came a rush of men and women.
He saw five teepees upon a rich plain almost surrounded by a bend of the river, and not far away there grazed a great band of elk women, herded apparently by a noble buck.
Soon both hunters emerged from their teepees heavily laden with traps, each man accompanied by his intelligent dog.
A few days later two solitary teepees stood on the shore of the pond, under the red cliffs of the Pipestone Quarry.
He ran as often as he came to open ground, and in a short time stood upon the top of the hill with the little group of teepees just below him.
In a sheltered spot his egg-shaped teepees were ranged in circular form.
The Dance of the Little People In full view of Wetaota, upon an open terrace half-way up the side of the hill in the midst of virgin Big Woods, there were grouped in an irregular circle thirty teepees of the Sioux.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "teepees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
