Patiently they submitted to the expulsion from the Bitter Root, but now in the darkness of gathering years once more they must strike theirtipis to make room for the invading hosts.
This man related to Coyote how he was the last survivor of a war party that had come upon a village once occupied by the enemy whom they sought, but as they approached they saw no smoke arising from the tipis and no sign of life.
There gathered parties of the upper and lower Kalisphelms, upper Kootenais, Flat Bowes, Pend d'Oreilles and Selish, to pitch theirtipis in the shadow of the Mission Cross.
The tipis and lodges are scattered over many miles, but the Indians kept coming as though called up by magic from their hiding places in the hills.
And for this reason Dakotas make their tipis round; and in laying a camp the tipis are set in a circular line; and in all ceremonies they sit in a circle.
Here the immense camp of hundreds of tipis was set up, more ceremonies were performed, and the mounted warriors rode out in a body to surround and slaughter the herd.
When they return, they find the tipis set up and the blankets spread out on the grass, and in a few minutes fires are built and the meal is in preparation.
The small groups of Indians, the tipis standing near the fort, and the rolling prairie in the distance are all graphically shown.
In the painting the tipis are undoubtedly too closely placed, but otherwise they are quite accurately shown.
The arrangement of the two large tipis so as to form a single shelter recalls the site of the gathering near the shore of Lake Traverse only a few years before.
Dorsey showed the varied designs on ceremonial tipis of the different Siouan tribes.
This may have been used during the preceding year, at which time the skin tipis of the people enacting the sacred ceremonies were pitched in the form of a circle with the great lodge standing in the center.
The village of skin-covered tipis standing on the shore of the lake, as seen by members of the expedition on that July day nearly a century ago, must have resembled the painting later made by Capt.
But on the plains, and in the regions bordering the great buffalo ranges, the skin-covered conical tipis predominated, although other forms were sometimes constructed by the same people.
It would also appear that in later years the earth and bark covered lodge ceased to be used, and that skin tipis were constructed to the exclusion of other forms of dwellings.
Many of their tipis were very large, beautifully made and decorated, and were evidently not surpassed in any manner by the similar structures constructed by other tribes of the Upper Missouri Valley.
There is reason to believe these were the first skin-covered tipis encountered by Seymour while ascending the Mississippi.
Arranging the skin covers of several largetipis in such a way as to form a single shelter, to serve as a ceremonial "lodge," was the custom of many tribes, and other instances will be mentioned.
The Indians would gather about the fort, their skin tipis standing in clusters over the surrounding prairie.
It begins after the grass has ceased sprouting (sonpata) and is considered to continue until fires are needed in the tipis at night, i.
It is indicated by pictures of the three tipis above the crescent.
The official report, which he quotes, makes the number of tipisin the village destroyed about one hundred and fifty and the Indian loss in killed and wounded together only sixty.
In the Set-t'an calendar the attack upon the camp is indicated by conventional bullets and arrows around two tipis above the winter mark.
The two tipis above the winter mark are intended to convey the idea.
Some of the estimates are based on the number of tipis or warriors, an uncertain ratio, which varies greatly in different tribes.
The "Minetaree of Fort de prairie" had attacked them and stolen horses and tipis (ibid.
Game in the pre-treaty period was plentiful in the Wyoming mountains and a single family or small group of tipis could gain adequate subsistence; the principal reason for larger gatherings in the summer was defense.
Informants said that the chief purpose of the spring hunt was to obtain hides for tipis (and all the other uses to which buffalo hide was put) and to get fresh meat.
A small camp of only a few tipis might consist of consanguineally and affinally related people, but such association was not a fixed rule.
An important product of the hunt, the most important according to one informant, was the buffalo hides from which tipis and robes were made.
In earlier times, it was said, the need for security from attack caused groups of from six to ten tipis (this figure is highly uncertain) to travel together.
In the period before the ending of intertribal hostilities in Wyoming camps were closely clustered to allow for mutual defense in the event of an attack, but after the pacification of the area, people pitched their tipis farther apart.
One informant said that each consisted of about fifteen tipis, while another said that groups of two to four tipis were common.
When this spot is reached, tipis are pitched and when everything is in place the medicine woman and her husband are taken inside.
They gather wood from among the tipis until they have enough to heat the rocks.
When the tipis are pitched at the new camping ground, the society comes in with the willows and the rocks for the sweathouse.
For this reason, tipis were always turned so the doors faced east.
Here and there about the tipishung bows with quivers of arrows.
Many of the Indians bring their tipis in which they live during the retreat.
The painted designs upon men’s robes and upon tipisare made by men; those upon parfleche and bags are by women.
As among many tribes, there was a definite order of camping when the circle of tipis was formed.
A camp may be represented by a series of tripods, signs for tipis (Fig.
By tradition, this was always the custom, though tipis were used instead of cabins.
According to Morgan, the framework of the aboriginal Dakota house consisted of 13 poles;(33) and Dorsey describes the systematic grouping of the tipis belonging to different gentes and tribes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tipis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
