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Wickiup

noun
1.
A lodge consisting of a frame covered with matting or brush; used by nomadic American Indians in the southwestern United States.  Synonym: wikiup.






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"Wickiup" Quotes from Famous Books



... the skins of big animals, and we need 'em right away. This weather can't last forever. We're bound to have a storm sometime soon. We must first make a wickiup. It's quite simple. The Sioux always do it. A Sioux warrior never sleeps in the open if he can help it, and as they've lived this sort of life for more hundreds of years than anybody knows they ought ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler

... gathered from the cabin, the wickiup, and the tepee. Partly by cajolery and partly by threats; partly by bribery and partly by fraud; partly by persuasion and partly by force, they are induced to leave their homes and their kindred to enter these schools and take upon themselves the outward ...
— The Old Franciscan Missions Of California • George Wharton James



Words linked to "Wickiup" :   indian lodge, wikiup, lodge



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