XVL Some Indian Ways 



Teepees 



(From Ladies' Home Journal, September, 1902) 



MANY famous campers have said that the Indian 

 teepee is the best known movable home. It is 

 roomy, self-ventilating, cannot blow down, and 

 is the only tent that admits of a fire inside. 



Then why is it not everywhere used? Because of the 

 difficulty of the poles. If on the prairie, you must carry 

 your poles. If in the woods, you must cut them at each 

 camp. 



General Sibley, the famous Indian fighter, invented a 

 teepee with a single pole, and this is still used by our army. 

 But it will not do for us. Its one pole is made in part of 

 iron, and is very cumbersome as well as costly. 



In the ''Buffalo days" the teepee was made of buffalo 

 skin; now it is made of some sort of canvas or cotton, but it 

 is decorated much in the old style. 



I tried to get an extra fine one made by the Indians, 

 especially as a model for our boys, but I found this no easy 

 matter. I could not go among the red folk and order it as 

 in a department store. 



At length I solved the difficulty by buying one ready 

 made, from Thunder Bull, a chief of the Cheyennes. 



It appears at the left end of the row of teepees heading 

 this chapter. 



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