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Hides for clothing and teepees, bones for tools and weapons, horns for ladles, hair for rope — a steady supply of bison was fundamental.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Around it were teepees, campfires and booths labeled “Mental Health and Cultural Support.”

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2022

“They set up this little community, put their teepees up and had some tents donated, and there were kids everywhere,” Thompson said, sobbing.

From National Geographic • Dec. 21, 2020

The terrain looks depopulated by a neutron bomb, and the people who remain here live off the grid in concrete tunnels, sheet-metal huts and teepees.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018

She learned that they lived in wigwams, not teepees, and that they made canoes from the bark of a single white birch tree, removed in one piece so as not to kill it.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline