He thought he had been napping but a few moments, when a peculiar scratching sound on the back of his tepee brought him up sitting, every nerve on the alert.
He crept back to the other side of the tepee and scratched on the tepee wall with his finger-nail.
He stepped boldly from the tepee and headed for a small stream at the left of the village, which he had observed on the previous day.
He understood then why Jinny had not been to the tepeesince bringing his meal.
Without another word, she slipped from the tepee as silently as she had come.
Injun Jim opened his eye suddenly, looked all around the tepee and then stared fixedly at Casey.
Casey's manner therefore was extremely preoccupied when he led a suddenly limping William up the gulch and past a stone hut with a patched tepee alongside it.
The tepee was gone, burned down according to Indian custom after a death, as he had expected.
He dimly saw that a few blankets lay untidily against the tepee wall and that an old Indian was stretched upon them, watching Casey with one black eye, the other lid lying in sunken folds across the socket.
The lean old squaw came meekly, stood just within the tepee while her lord spat words at her.
Opposite the tepee the squaw stood beside the trial.
A lean squaw stood erect before thetepee and regarded him fixedly from under the shade of a mahogany-colored hand, and when Casey came closer she stooped and ducked out of sight like a prairie dog diving into its burrow.
It sliced its way through the tepeewall and hung there quivering, Caught by the hilt.
The council tepee fell in the dirt--a dozen squaws tugging at its voluminous folds.
They walk all one green-grass beside their long-horned buffalo, hauling their tepeewagons over the plains.
When at last they went to their tepee to rest, they were tired, but could not sleep.
Toma stooped into the opening of the tepee and disappeared.
As they hurried from the tepee on the morning of that day which was to mean so much, an inspiring sight greeted their eyes.
Leaving Toma to look after the dogs, Dick and Sandy followed Malemute Slade and the policemen to a tepeemuch larger than the rest.
Presently in the shadow of the tepee nearest the bushes, Toma rose and walked slowly toward one of the campfires, where he joined a group.
The only light in the tepee was a tiny fire glowing in the center.
Gosh, it's dark," whispered Sandy, when the tepee flap closed behind them.
The Snake-Who-Leaps will be at the tepee of my sister each day when the sun climbs to the point overhead.
Let him build there a tepeelarge enough for all your needs,--a wigwam, remember, not a house.
Not the least, to make her neglected tepee a brighter, fitter home for this stray sunbeam which the Great Spirit had sent to her out of the sky, and into which He had breathed the soul of her lost one.
I want you to take my white boy-captive and lead him to the tepee of the Woman-Who-Mourns.
I have bidden him come to this tepee when the sun crosses the meridian.
Lahnowenah ran to summon them, and they gathered about the tepee in expectant silence.
Having said this, and still carrying the burning fagot, he walked to the closed tepee of his widowed sister and lifted its door flap.
Until she could secure properly dressed skins or bark, these would serve her purpose well enough for the little tepee she meant to pitch close to the house which sheltered her children.
Everybody was up; and more than one commented upon the strangeness of the three horses being brought to the tepee so early.
The Man-Who-Kills was in the very centre of the group which had squatted in a semi-circle as near as it dared before the tepee of their chief's sister, and the low grunts came from this band of spectators.
She took the bow and its accoutrements from the sheltered niche in the tepee where it hung; the only spot, it seemed, that had not been subjected to the destruction of the elements.
And many the pale-faced trader who stops at the tepeedoor For a smile from the sweet, shy worker, and a sigh when the hour is o'er.
Among the lonely Lakes I go no more, For she who made their beauty is not there; The paleface rears his tepee on the shore And says the vale is fairest of the fair.
I dare not linger on the moment when My boat I beached beside her tepee door; I heard the wail of women and of men,-- I saw the death-fires lighted on the shore.
Etched where the lands and cloudlands touch and die A solitary Indian tepee stands, The only habitation of these lands, That roll their magnitude from sky to sky.
The Indians who have reverted to type, discarded the ways of civilization for a tepee and primitive uncleanliness, follow the path of least resistance.
There it was no uncommon sight to see a gaudy limousine parked outside a tepee and a grand piano on the ground inside.
The fat youth, with a pretence of outraged dignity, sought histepee and engaged himself in cleaning his twenty-two rifle.
It seemed to the latter that they had not been asleep half an hour when the major entered their tepee and aroused them for their tour of duty.
After supper, since it was so bitterly cold outside, the man-hunters slept in the tepee of the chief.
Stokimatis took me to her tepee and I lived there with her and Onistah till I was five or six.
Her food was left for her at some distance from the tepee and when the robe was dressed, medicine ceremonies were held over her before she was allowed to join the camp.
I glanced about me apprehensively; surely this must be the same tepee in which Captain Heald and I had met the chiefs!
There is naught for you to forgive, Mademoiselle," I answered, drawing myself wholly within the tepee and resting on my knees.
I walked with eyes alert upon either side of our path for another glimpse of that girlish figure that I had seen before so dimly; but we traversed nearly the full length of the tepeerows before I saw any one that at all resembled her.
Inch by inch I worked the skin covering of the tepee entrance up from the ground, screwing my eye to the aperture in an effort to penetrate the shrouded interior.
He waited by the chief's tepee while the two set about what slight preparations were needed for departure and watched the clean-limbed bucks idling down to the Katchewan's bank.
They rushed in a body, howling wickedly and baring vicious, chisel-like fangs, but the chief trader plucked a stick from a tepee fire and belabored their hard heads till they retreated faster than they had charged.
Within the primitive tepeeon a pile of rabbit-skin blankets sat Flora Macleod, the Factor's fugitive daughter.
His back-twist of the arm sent Three Feathers hurtling in among a group of squaws about a tepee door, where he sprawled ingloriously with his heels in the air.
Then he built a long tepee and a fire was kindled in the center by the Thunderers.
So, as the boy wandered from his small tepee in the forest, he thought about these things.
On the fifth day, towards night, the hunter looked out from his tepee upon a frozen world.
In a few moments they were out of Sim Gage's lane and along the highway as far as the point where the Tepee Creek trail turned off into the mountains.
Upon his return, he saw a tepee pitched on the edge of his farm and went over to see what it was there for and who was in it.
Then with their ponies loaded, the tepee poles dragging behind, for three days our Indians went by our place on the old trail going west.
When we got toTepee hill I said, "I'll walk down this hill.
Well old Jerry had got in the creek at the bottom of Tepee hill, the outlet of Long Lake into Minnetonka and they couldn't get him out.
After the massacre when the Indians were brought to Fort Snelling I saw a young squaw, a beauty, standing in the door of her tepee with just that same look.
Said he had been away from his tepee for days and his squaws wanted him.
We started on again and went about a mile and a half till we came to Tepee hill where the Long Lake cemetery is.
It says that there is a dangerous mystery in the blue-and-yellow tepee at the head of the village.
So White Otter stole into his owntepee by night--told his father of his triumph--got a quantity of vermilion and returned to the hills.
He lied to me about the gun; he has come into the council tepee of the Chis-chis-chash and lied to all the chiefs.
The lodge-fires died down in the camp, but the muffled intone came in a hollow sound from the interior of the tepee until the spirit of silence was made more sure, and sleep came over the bad and good together.
He sat long before his prayers were heeded, but at last could hear the rain patter on the dry sides of the tepee and he knew that the Thunder Bird had broken through the air to let the rain fall.
The Deacon" took it with extreme seriousness, and signed his name to it; and there was no call for improvements from the solemn couple at Tepee Bottom.
She had come to the Bad Lands with her husband and daughter since Roosevelt's previous visit, and established a ranch on what was known as "Tepee Bottom.
The Indians led us to the lodges of the hostiles safely enough; and their return gave us entrance if not welcome to the tepee village.
Smoke curled up from the poles crisscrossed at the tepee forks, but we could descry no figures against the tent-walls as in summer, for heavy skins of the chase overlaid the parchment.
Then the frost thinned to the rising sun and vague outlines of tepee lodges could be descried in the clouded valley.
One night they were camped beside some bare tepee poles on a point of the bank.
Proceeding from tepee to tepee he called out likely-looking individuals to be questioned out of sight of the others.
The instant they got in motion a wailing sound swept from tepee to tepee.
She must have been concealed in the very tepee from which Imbrie had issued on the occasion of Stonor's first visit to the village at Swan Lake.
But the tepee flaps were thrown wide, and though he strained his eyes from a covert of tall reeds, he saw no sign of her, without or within.
On the return from the rescue of Forsyth, the men stopped at the lonely tepee in the valley.
Many whites, as well as Indians, assembled at his tepee to pay their last respects to the noted red man, and buried him as the Sac chieftains had always been interred.
We must trudge along, and hasten to the tepee of Massasoit, for he may not now be dead and these stories may be false.
But the Great Spirit was with them, and down the broad stream they glided, far away to the margin of a lake, where they landed, built a tepee and lived for two generations.
In a moment the mats, with which it was covered, were alight, and the tepee blazed upwards in smoke and fire.
He slept in a small tepee built against that of Monsieur and Madame Langlade, and from which there was no egress save through theirs.
In his close little tepee he flexed and tensed his muscles and went through physical exercises every night and morning, but it was on the lake in the fishing, where the Indians grew to recognize his help, that he achieved most.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tepee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
