The tents, or teepees, were of skins stretched over poles, and not of bark, like those of the woodland tribes.

Thousands there must have been, around their fires and teepees, and coming or going from the valley.

I reached the teepee in which I had spent the night, and flung myself down on the rude couch.

Then he seemed to dismiss him, and the proud chief walked out of the teepee like a disconsolate schoolboy.

" But to me, the greatest objects of interest and curiosity were the original owners of the country, whose teepees could be seen in every direction.

In front of the teepees, young men are lying on the ground, lazily playing checkers, while their wives and sisters are cutting wood and engaged in laborious household duties.

Mothers with children, and corn, and teepees, and children with dogs on their backs.

The women plant the poles of their teepees firmly in the ground and cover them with a buffalo skin.

The teepees are pitched quite near the shore, and the many bluffs that rise behind them seem to be their perpetual guards.

The cone-shaped teepees rise before their view.

Their teepees are always made of buffalo-skins; nothing would induce them to use deer-skin for that purpose.

The women raised the teepees, six in number, and prepared the scanty portion of food for their families.

Three teepees then remained, and they were occupied by seventeen persons, all women and children excepting four.

For a short time broken and shrill cries were heard from the other teepees, but they were soon over.

She reached the teepees at last, and hastened to tell of her sorrows, and of the treachery of Hole-in-the-Day.

The fires in the teepees were not gone out; the smoke was ascending to the heavens; while the voices of the murdered Dahcotahs seemed to call upon their relatives for revenge..

Of the fourteen persons who were in the three teepees, no more than four escaped; two young men and two women.

The remains of a few houses are to be seen, and the broken ground in which were planted the poles of their teepees.

One human figure was seen outside the many teepees that rose side by side in the village.

"Our warriors, roused from their sleep, determined to find out the cause of the alarm; they were thrust back into their teepees by the bayonets of the long knives, and the voice of the Interpreter was heard, crying, 'The first Dahcotah that leaves his lodge shall be shot.'

We were but forty; we flew towards them, holding our shields before our breasts; the wind tore up the trees, and threw down the teepees, as we passed along.

By the light of the moon the teepees were reflected in its waters.

At length they entered their teepees to seek rest, and Harpstenah and her mother were the last at the door of their teepee, where a group had been seated on the ground, discussing their own and others' affairs.

When the hunters had obtained a large number of those valued animals, the women struck their teepees and prepared for their return.

At Port Rae were old Jock Wilson, the Chief Trader; Father Bonat, the priest; Andrew Levoy, the metis clerk; four Dog Rib teepees; Galen Albret and his bride; and Graehme Stewart.