The people talked about it in their tepees when North Wind rattled the flaps and shouted to them.
There were gathered about the Prince in front of these tall, painted tepees many chiefs of strange, odd-sounding names.
From over by thetepees there came the low throbbing of tom-toms to join with the thin, high, dog-like whoop of the Indian greeting.
As they raced by the house and tepees the boy, Ned, cautiously raised his small body from behind a pile of logs which edged the road and beckoned to them frantically.
Isaac saw, indistinctly in the morning mist, the faint outlines of tepees and wigwams, and he knew he was once more in the encampment of the Wyandots.
As Isaac was led down a lane between two long lines of tepees the watching Indians did not make the demonstration that usually marked the capture of a paleface.
Custer raised his hat and gave a yell, saying they were asleep in their tepees and surprised, and to charge.
There were no pale faces then in all the land to drive them from their tepees and take their hunting grounds.
They live in canvas tepees of primitive style, but with the exception of moccasins and a few Indian trinkets they have conformed somewhat to the costumes of the civilized people around them.
Resuming our way, stemming the current of the river we pass other scenes, other birch canoes gliding over the waves, other tepees and Indian villages along the shore.
Surrounded by willows and ragged spruces the conical tepees rose in the plain beneath, but Blake, who was leading, stopped abruptly as he caught sight of them.
They had to even throw barricades around their tepees and watch day and night until the soldiers came, giving notice that whoever raised hand to harm these defenseless people would do it at their peril.
The post flag floated gaily at the staff head, and in the broad clearing about its base were pitched the tepees of the fur bringers.
Jean, as she caught sight of the dozen or more tepees that were pitched between the lake and the low log trading post.
At the edge of the white sands of Wollaston, whose broad water was like oil tonight, stood the tepees of Yellow Bird's people.
They had many warm blankets, and good clothes, and the best of tepees and guns and sledges, and several treasures besides.
Eagerly they studied the cut and sweep of the land, the way the tepees dotted it, the moving of the pony herds and the coming and going of the hunters, but most of all the mischievous wanderings of the restless Indian boys.
He passed among the tepees at the end of the village, then quickly approached the direction of the noise of the flute.
Before them lay a big camp--the tepees scattering down the creek-bottom for miles, until lost at a turn of the timber.
Their tepees stretched as far as the eye could see.
We saw some Sioux tepees and met the Indians constantly.
He pictured her in the frail craft as he swiftly paddled downstream, past the tepees of the Warpeton Sioux.
Her tribe, called the People of the Leaves, used to build their movable tepees along the shores of this lake," said Raven Wing.
We will visit on our way," and so they stopped to beach their canoes whenever they saw upon the bluffs the summer houses of poles and leaves which the Sioux erect in place of the winter tepees of dressed buffalo skin.
The tepees were strung along the eastern bank of a stream of considerable size, and was the dwelling-place of Taggarak, the most famous of the Blackfoot war chiefs and the head of the other sachems, most of whom lived in different villages.
The tepees were more than a hundred in number, and, when Taggarak went on the war path, he had taken more than two hundred warriors from his own town--and they were the flower of the tribe.
It was about the middle of the afternoon when the lads, under the lead of their dusky friend, threaded their way among the tepeesto one near the middle of the village, which might be considered the royal residence.
Gaspar says thetepees are as comfortable as the best log cabins, though so hastily put up.
Braves and their families, from other villages and other branches of our tribe, have raised their tepees here.
As we left our tepees in the morning, we were never sure that our scalps would not dangle from a pole in the afternoon!
Most of the tepees had been collected together and pitched so as to form a large circle, and their wagons were placed outside this circle so as to make a sort of protection for the defending party.
Then there was a sound, low at first, like the crooning of a mother to a babe, which grew louder and louder, until finally there emerged from one of the tepees a big buck who stood silently for a full minute, listening.
Then other tepees showed signs of life, and in a few moments bucks, squaws and papooses were running hither and thither in a bewildering way.
In the warm sun of mid-morning, its worn wheels rattling, its cattle limping and with lolling tongues, this caravan forded and swung wide into corral below the crowded tepees of the sullen tribesmen.
Their scouts saw with amazement the village of tepees that moved on wheels.
They found the wall of tepees solid; found that the white nation knew more of war than they had thought.
One by one the tepees in the post clearing disappeared as, each day, canoes of Cree hunters started up-river for lakes of the interior, to net fish for the coming winter.
The uproar waked the sleeping huskies at the few remaining Esquimo tepees on the shore, whose howling quickly aroused the post dogs.
He could now see the tepees of the Whale River Crees, dotting the high shores, and below, along the beach, the squat skin lodges of the Huskies, with their fish scaffolds and umiaks.
Near the shore a platform was built around a tall pine-tree, and grouped around this were tepees and wigwams forming the Indian village.
Such rude shelter as their comrades can improvise from the Indian tepees we interpose between them and the dripping skies above.
The village itself consists of some thirty lodges or tepees of the largest and most ornate description known to Sioux architecture.
He means," said Unktomi, "that the two children whom you forsook have tepees full of dried meat enough for all the village.
So thick were they that the poor women were sorely tried keeping them out of theirtepees and driving them away from their lines of jerked buffalo meat.
They came to the three tepees and there met the girl's brother and husband just going out to hunt (which they did now only for sport).
All that remained in sight were the bunch of cattle, a small band of ponies in a rope corral, and the tepees and tents.
The Indians left their tepees standing, and ran for their lives.
Here and there were the smoke-browned tepees of the Indians, before which sat the squaws and papooses, and the old men and women.
No council was held so far as the only white inmate of their tepees could discern.
On the same day, Smoky Moccasin, for some reason that did not appear clear, moved his tepees to Coursalle's trading post.
For purposes of conducting their war dance it was necessary that thetepees should be so pitched as to surround a hollow square.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tepees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
