The White Horse Tepee Project
First Nations, tepees, indigenous culture Kelly Allard First Nations, tepees, indigenous culture Kelly Allard

 The White Horse Tepee Project

Elder Charlie spoke of the traditional materials to use to build tepees - while Mercer's project uses canvas, they once used buffalo hide which is very heavy - this limited the size of the tepees… and told us the tepee rings we see on the plains were from campsites, the stones were used to hold down the tepees instead of pegs. 

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