wickiup

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Honorary chairman was none other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup.

From Time Magazine Archive

Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could see her family's wickiup, but Owl Carver was no longer standing outside watching.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert

He put his head in at the door of her wickiup.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter

She and Redbird's sisters were already bedded down for the night on buffalo-robe pallets along the wall of the wickiup.

From Shaman by Shea, Robert