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    Spotted Tail (category People from Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota)
    as Indian agent for the Upper Platte), appeared at Fort Laramie with 60 tepee (April 14) and settled near th fort, collecting a camp of 185 tepee jointly...
    57 KB (8,443 words) - 08:57, 23 July 2024
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    an Indian legend about the Great Tepee from an islander. This legend said that the Great Spirit would one day gather nations under a great tepee, or...
    50 KB (5,887 words) - 14:49, 18 June 2023
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    Oglala (category Native American tribes in South Dakota)
    their lands and the very idea of the "red men". A circle of eight white tepees, tops pointing outward, represents the eight districts of the reservation:...
    15 KB (1,711 words) - 18:11, 25 June 2024
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    Red Fox James (category Members of the Society of American Indians)
    United States Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. By 1920, Red Fox was the Head Chief of the American Indian Tepee Christian Mission, a cooperative...
    11 KB (744 words) - 02:41, 30 July 2024
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    Flying Hawk (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    lesson from the Indian; they make their wigwam on wheels and go on the trail like red people do; Indians make travois and pony pull their tepee; white man's...
    108 KB (17,210 words) - 10:58, 31 May 2024
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    Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century (category Native American religion)
    a number of historic symbols. A tepee with small, left facing swastikas represents the unit's campaigns in the Indian Wars of the late 19th century. The...
    133 KB (14,529 words) - 15:48, 31 July 2024
  • community was surrounded by Native American Indians who continued to live in tepees during this time. The Poles and the Indians enjoyed good relations and historical...
    238 KB (30,456 words) - 17:20, 30 May 2024
  • Isabel Crawford (category Female Christian missionaries)
    stay with me all through this life, and afterward I will move to the “Big Tepee” and sit down with the Shepherd Chief forever. Crawford retired in 1929...
    11 KB (1,537 words) - 17:28, 20 April 2023
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    Joseph Renville (category American translators)
    alphabet. In the early years, Renville "allowed the missionaries to use the tepee headquarters of the soldiers' lodge as a church." Joseph and Mary Renville...
    19 KB (2,366 words) - 05:44, 28 June 2024
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    the Saamis Memorial Funeral Chapel & Crematorium. Now named the Saamis Tepee, this work of public art is the world's tallest teepee. It was installed...
    69 KB (7,041 words) - 14:24, 22 July 2024
  • Camp Ondessonk (category Christian summer camps)
    reintroduced as a tepee unit for one summer. In 1996, the camp was accredited by the American Camping Association (later renamed the American Camp Association)...
    40 KB (4,764 words) - 18:00, 16 June 2024
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    Battle at Fort Utah (category Use American English from May 2023)
    including the body of Pareyarts. Further up the canyon, they found more tepees and killed more Timpanogos and took more prisoners. Some of the prisoners...
    32 KB (3,760 words) - 22:23, 1 August 2024
  • Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (category Wars between the United States and Native Americans)
    The Cheyenne deity is called by Wooden Leg the Great Medicine. A sacred tepee in the camp holds the tribal medicine object, which in the case of the Northern...
    48 KB (7,480 words) - 03:04, 21 February 2024
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    Porcupine (Cheyenne) (category Native American people of the Indian Wars)
    the highest status medicine man in the tribe, the Keeper of the Sacred Tepee. He was involved in four separate treaty councils with the U.S. which resulted...
    27 KB (4,030 words) - 09:06, 15 May 2024
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    Spokane Garry (category Native American leaders)
    1892) was a Native American leader of the Middle Spokane tribe. He also acted as a liaison between white settlers and American Indian tribes in the area...
    14 KB (2,008 words) - 03:44, 17 April 2024
  • Eastman, who was born in 1858 into a family of the Santee Dakota people in a tepee near Redwood Falls, Minnesota, published many literary works about the history...
    71 KB (8,953 words) - 03:17, 29 July 2024
  • Black Bear (chief) (category Wind River Indian Reservation)
    other Native American tribes, were prevented from ranging through their traditional hunting grounds due to settlement by European-Americans who came west...
    19 KB (2,228 words) - 13:21, 2 April 2024