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TIPI TO HIRE; YOU MUST HAVE A RESERVATION.(News)
; ...weekend - living in an authentic native American Indian tipi. The tipi, 25ft tall and 18ft wide, has room for up to six people...box. And, naturally, there's a camp fire outside. The tipi (apparently that's the right way to spell it, rather than... Read more
Collector's Corner
; ...that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting...in 1601 when he first saw a cone-shaped tipi of the Great Plains Indians. In the late...brightly inside. For the Plains Indians, a tipi did more than just shield them from wind... Read more
Pine Ridge graduates leave their mark
; ...staff and teachers put their handprints and names on a tipi, with some tipi decorations already painted on by art instructor and...from spiritual leader Wilmer Mesteth how to put up a tipi. Besides going up every year for graduation, the school... Read more
THE WINTERCOUNT TIPI
; ...highways are unusual symbols to decorate a tipi with; most tend to have graphics depicting nature and animals. But Jim Anderson's tipi is unique, it's the wintercount of the 21st century. Anderson's wintercount tipi tells of the events that faced protesters... Read more
Cranberry Portage christens the world's biggest teepee
; ...record books for having the world's largest tipi. Spanning 20 metres across and reaching...height of 21 metres, the newly constructed tipi in Cranberry Portage is vying for a Guinness...tipis all along the lakefront here ." The tipi is just one part of the Summer Arts Festival... Read more
Tipis, Tepees, Teepees.(Tipis, Tepees, Teepees: History and Design of the Cloth Tipi)(Brief article)(Book review)
; ...Native American culture expert and dedicated tipi-maker Linda A. Holley presents Tipis, Tepees, Teepees: History and Design of the Cloth Tipi, an extraordinary history of a cloth dwelling...covers far more than the history of the tipi; chapters also cover their many styles... Read more
Stolen tipi canvas opens up hearts.
; ...act. On Aug. 6, the canvas covering of a tipi at Edmonton's University Hospital was stolen...to prop up the ceremonial monument. The tipi was a symbol of the partnership between...before the theft. Three days after the tipi went missing, a new canvas covering was... Read more
Hippy days way out west Paleface ANDREW EAMES took his children to a Cornish camp reservation for a close encounter with nature
; ...A summer's eve I was seated outside the tipi in the gloaming of our forest clearing...the fire pit. The murmuring within the tipi was my son (Buffalo Dreaming, commonly...car-flagellatingly narrow and bears no signs of a 29-tipi site in the vicinity. Turn into a gate... Read more
Tipi helps build relationships
; ...summer, the Town of Turtleford bought a tipi to sit on the grounds of the local museum...community gathering and celebration when the tipi was first set up on the museum grounds...whole family went to the museum the day the tipi went up. The kids ran around and ate lots... Read more
Holidays: Tepee or not tepee.(ROP)
; ...partner and I tootled off to Bodmin for a tipi (they prefer the ethnic spelling) break...itching for action. We couldn't book into the tipi site until the afternoon so we drove south...found ourselves in the vicinity of the tipi field. It was around here somewhere, dammit... Read more

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Tipiṭaka
Tipiṭaka (Pāli, ‘Triple Basket’): see BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES ; TRIPIṬAKA . Read more
tepee
or tipi , typical dwelling of Native North Americans living on the Great Plains. It was usually made by arranging...used it as a model for the tent that bears his name. Bibliography: See R. Laubin and G. Laubin, The Indian Tipi (1957, repr. 1971). Read more
tepee
or tipi Tall tent dwelling used by the Plains Indian s. It was suited to their nomadic life of buffalo hunting, because it could be easily... Read more
Tripiṭaka
Tripiṭaka (Skt.; Pāli, Tipiṭaka). ‘Three baskets’. Collective name for the Buddhist canon, which consists of a threefold collection of... Read more
Cūlanāga Thera
Cūlanāga Thera. Also referred to as Tipiṭaka-Cūlanāga, he was apparently a very well-known commentator since his opinions are quoted in the commentaries... Read more

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