The Tipi Order of America opened a new Council in Tacoma (Tahoma) during the Planting Moon.
The Yakima Council of Tipi Order is planning for a big pow-wow and shoot.
The common type of winter dwelling was a sort of tipimade of rye grass.
If it is assumed that each family had from five to ten horses, three of which were needed to drag the tipi and utensil-loaded travois and three for riding, only two horses were, according to his reasoning, available for packing.
It is significant in this connection that, as soon as the security of the country was guaranteed by the presence of the whites, the one-or two-tipi summer camp displaced its somewhat larger predecessor.
The tipi poles were strapped on each side of the ponies and their belongings and presents, for the tribe they were going to visit, piled on the poles.
She sat on the buffalo robe inside the tipi and watched the child rolling about outside with the little fat puppy, hugging it one moment, savagely spatting it over the eyes the next.
When he passed out of sight she took her baby and went to a tipi a short distance from hers, where a stalwart buck lay on a shaggy buffalo robe on the shady side, smoking a pipe of kinnikinick, and playing with some young dogs.
Then, while some of the women set up the tipi poles, draw the canvas over them, and drive in the pegs around the bottom and the wooden pins up the side, other women take axes and buckets and go down to the creek for wood and water.
To the familiar, this little song brings up pleasant memories of the prairie camp when the wind is whistling through the tipi poles and blowing the flaps about, while inside the fire burns bright and the song and the game go round.
On account of its exact adaptability to prairie life, the tipi was taken as the model of the army tent which bears the name of General Sibley, and is used now by our army.
So the young man Piya, the wizard, together with his three friends, the wolf, the turtle and the meadowlark came back to the tipiof his grandmother.
The circle is a symbol of thetipi and of shelter and comfort.
In warm weather the bottom of the tipi was raised to allow the breeze to pass through.
The fire burned up her tipi and everything it contained, and they barely escaped with their lives.
The draft was regulated by two flaps or wings supported each on a movable pole slanted alongside the tipi with its base on the ground and its top fastened to the apex of the smoke-flap.
So they all came back to the tipi of the Old Woman.
She invited them into hertipi and prepared food and set it before them.
As fast as the fruit was put in Tipi and Tepa ate it up.
Tipi and Tepa dwelt together and lived on baked cakes.
The next day Tipi and Tepa again went out begging and as luck would have it again met the bear.
Formerly, the tipi of the medicine woman was moved three times, four different camps resulting, the last being at its position in the circle for the sun dance.
So when all the medicinemen and women had come into the tipi to rehearse the songs as usual, he made a statement of these suspicions and as he had two wives, he proposed to have them change places.
The mother directs the attending women in taking down the tipi and hitching the horse to the travois.
Early in the day another tipi is pitched before the medicine tipi and the covers are joined, thus enlarging the space and providing for a few spectators.
Oftimes, when a member of the family is dangerously ill, one of the women goes out of the tipi and raising her eyes to the sun calls upon it that health may be restored to the ailing one.
Two days later, the same participants are called together to the same tipi and the woman rises and takes first the painted tongue and then the others from where they were hung.
After this, the four stand in front of the tipi and the man announces the vow.
The woman who made the vow, rises and ties one end of the rope to the tipi pole on the north side and the other end to the tipi pole on the south side, a little to the west of the fireplace.
The dancing lodge may be said to take its origin on the fourth day, by which time the medicine woman has her tipi in place near its site and the camp circle has been formed.
Four-bears is told to tell the mosquito society to sing that night in their own tipi which is inside of the circle.
The mother and other attendants then lead the daughter to her tipi where she resumes her ordinary routine.
In former times, thetipi was abandoned or used as a burial-tipi.
If one is discovered about to enter the tipi where the other is present, someone gives warning in time to avoid the breach.
Thus, the bear must not be named in a tipi when there are certain bundles, guests seeing these bundles hung up there must act accordingly and designate the bear, if at all, by some descriptive terms.
The formal marriage ceremony was simple, the couple taking their proper places in the tipi and assuming at once their domestic responsibilities.
The player’s side now sings and drums upon the tipi poles, provided for that purpose, apparently to divert the attention of the guessers.
During the period between the proposal and the marriage, the hunt was delivered to the tipi of the prospective father-in-law and when cooked a portion was carried to the young man’s tipi by the girl.
He lies in wait outside the tipi at night or along the paths to the water and wood-gathering places to force his attentions.
The tipi was in reality one of the “painted lodges” to be discussed under another head, but may be considered here merely as a good example of picture writing and heraldry.
One horse, however, was tied to a tipi pole, a striped pinto.
She may receive support from her son-in-law but, even with the taboo removed, must not live in the sametipi with him, a small one being set up outside.
When all hope for the patient is abandoned, he is painted and dressed in his best costume and, at present, often taken out of the house to a tipi so that it may not be necessary to tear down the building.
Another manner of approach is by creeping under the tipi cover into the sleeping place of the girls.
When it is suspicioned that a man contemplates a crime or the taking of personal vengeance some head men go to his tipi and talk with him, endeavoring to calm him, giving much kind advice as to the proper course for the good of all concerned.
They sit around the tipi and work their magic powers in turn while their women assist with the songs.
A person of some importance was placed in a tipi on some high place.
His tipi and personal property might be destroyed.
He carried the tipi and its contents across the plains and sped the hunters in their pursuit of the buffalo.
A tipi approximately 15 feet in diameter usually accommodated two families.
Boulder rings, which sometimes appear in large numbers but more often present only one or two specimens in a given location, were once thought to betipi rings.
In summertime many of the Indians, showing a longing for the oldtipi life, live in tents placed in their yards, and cook over open fires.
In the same way the easily moved skin tipi of the nomadic Sioux whom the early explorers found to the east of the Missouri was well suited to their wandering mode of life.
Out on the prairies, sometimes along the shores of rivers or lakes, sometimes on the open plain, stood the tipi villages of the enemy--the nomadic Assiniboin and Sioux.
Although the evening was quiet, the tipi was seen to sway as though buffeted by a tempest, then remain motionless a few seconds and again shake convulsively.
Inside the tipi sat the medicine man, believed to be talking with spirits whom he had summoned, the spirits making known their presence by the shaking of the conical structure.
According to the best authorities on the Omaha, from whose monographs much of the following information has been gleaned, the earth lodge and the skin tipi are the only forms of habitations made use of by the Omaha in recent generations.
Likewise when and where the skin tipi first became known to them is not possible to determine, but probably not until they had reached the valley of the Missouri and were nearing the banks of that stream north of the Kansas.
An excellent description of the skin-covered tipi of the Sioux, but of the structures of the Yankton in particular, is contained in Maximilian's narrative.
Only the typical bark house and the conical skin-covered tipi were seen by Seymour.
A white shield supported outside a tipi is visible in the photograph reproduced as plate 47.
Catlin's original painting of this most interesting tipi is in the National Museum, Washington, and is here reproduced in plate 46, a.
Later in the day Maximilian accompanied the Indian agent to the tipi occupied by the Crow chief Eripuass.
This must have been a magnificent example of the tipi of the plains tribes, and is one of the largest of which any record has been preserved.
And then the Raven spoke in whispers low: "Gray Cloud demands our daughter's hand, and she Unto his tipi very soon must go.
She paused a moment, then with furtive tread Close to the tipi glided like a thief; With lips apart, and eager bended head, She listened there to what the conjurer said.
Her tipi soon she reached, distant no more Than arrow from a warrior's bowstring sent, Paused but to wipe her knife upon the grass, And found her usual couch upon the floor.
And the Indian, grown used to such things, folds his tipi and takes his way into the charity of the lessening wilderness.
No Indian, however brave, pitches his tipi by this lake nor crosses its waters, for among the tangle of weeds in its black, mysterious bosom, water sirens are believed to dwell.
The fire on the ground in the center of the tipi was smouldering smokily, and the forms of the men beyond were but dimly visible.
XXXV IN THE CHIEF'S TIPI The others of the party realized that Louis knew more than they about Indians, so his view of what was best to do prevailed.
In the center of the inner open space, stood a solitary tipi of unusual size.
The Anko calendar records for this summer a visit made by the Kiowa to the Cheyenne, indicated in the usual place for the medicine lodge by the figure of a tipi (i.
On reaching home he erected a tipi with a raised platform inside, upon which, as upon a bed, he placed the bundle containing his son's bones.
On coming near his father's tipi he concealed the woman among the trees and went into the tipi to get something to eat before going on.
An old Apache warrior, who was left behind in his tipi in the hurry of flight, was also killed.
The three principal tipi poles tied together are called gunpae (gun and pae); the Comanche tipi has four principal poles.
The Anko calendar notes the building of a medicine tipiby Datekan, for the purpose of bringing back the buffalo (see summer 1882).
In this month he removed from the winter camp near the agency to his home camp near the mountains; the tipi picture records the fact.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tipi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
