Tipis

Great Plains Weather: cold winters hot summers Natural Resources: mountains surrounding edges treeless grasslands in the center east more water and softer soil west drier dense grass Buffalo and smaller animals Culture: Tools: bow made of buffalo tendon, arrows, V shaped stone trap, fire, bone knives, shields, Clothing: Buffalo robes and hides Shelter: Houses called tipis ❋ [email protected](SpychalskyMelanie (2009)

But then I think of my ancestors, living in tipis and surviving. ❋ Tim Giago (2011)

St. Paul's, pictured below, was renamed Marty Indian School when the tribe took it over in 1975; 2008 graduation tipis are shown in the foreground. ❋ Stephanie Woodard (2011)

American Indians invented more than twenty kinds of housing—wigwams, tipis, brush huts, plank houses, pueblos, grass houses and pit houses. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

On the Great Plains, Native American women owned, built and decorated the tipis of their world. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Food is vegetarian or vegan and rooms range from tipis to chalets and rooms in the house.• kaliyoga.com; dynamic retreats from €695 per week, including food, teaching and accommodation ❋ Unknown (2012)

Open all year; tipis from £110 a night, yurts/bigger tipis from £150 a night, Airstream caravans from £170, based on two people, + £18-£30 per extra person per night; 01580 292992Alde Garden is a peaceful, electricity-free sanctum deep in Suffolk wildflower territory. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This 160-work exhibit highlights females' roles — with three full-size tipis, two completely furnished — and presents the tipi as architecture and sculpture. ❋ Unknown (2011)

What happens in your tipi may not pass in the tipis of others, and vice versa, but you may be smart to give her what she wants, even if it's yore A-5. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unravel within the comfort of domes, bell tents, and "threepi" tipis and feel soothed by wholesome countryside sounds while you snuggle into the beanbag on the outside decking or unwind with a trip to the woodland sauna. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mar–Oct; £13-£15 per pitch per night (two adults), £3-£4 per child (over 4), under-4s free; 01409 211507Over its 140-acre estate, Loch Tay Highland Lodges offers wooden lodges, wigwams or heated wooden tipis – or you can pitch your own tent on the small campsite overlooking the loch. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It makes me wonder how they kept their tipis from blowing away. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stacks of stripped, long pine poles, probably for tipis, were evenly stacked on the other side of the fence. ❋ Lori Armstrong (2010)

Those who managed to crawl up the other bank were pursued, some for up to four miles, and shot down.30 Many were left to die in burning tipis. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)