: a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains
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Recent Examples on the WebThere’s a twilight canoe outing on Bow River for a quintessential Canadian moment, white water rafting that ends with a night in Anishinabe-style tepees, excursions on float planes, and even a day of wine tasting in the Okanagan valley.—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2024 These aren’t ‘tepee rings,’ these are vision quest circles.—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024 Foreign companies are also building similar heated tepees, including Nortent in Norway and Eldfell in Sweden.—Brett French, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024 Rental villages of tepees, domes, A-frames and shipping containers sprawl across scrub-brush hillsides.—Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2023 Native American tribal members spend the week living in a tepee village just outside the rodeo grounds and perform dances in full regalia.—Kent Edwards | Special To The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023 Top Load Light the tinder inside your tepee, and feed the fire from the top as needed to customize the blaze, like a mood-setting dimmer switch.—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023 Lean the smallest sticks on the tepee, leaving a doorway to face the wind.—Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023 Frame the Walls Choose slow-burning whole green logs of white oak, ash, or birch to build the frame that will hold the tepee sticks upright.—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
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