Teepees in Sweden and North America, plus beautiful Agnetha Faltskog!
This photo made in 1900 shows a Sami family who were still living their traditional lifestyle. Note how they look like light-skinned, mixed blood American Indians. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
- This photo made in 1900 shows a Sami family who were still living their traditional lifestyle. Note how they look like light-skinned, mixed blood American Indians.
- As can be seen from these photos taken in the early 1900s, some Sami (Lapps) look almost full-blooded Native American (First Nations) while others appear to be Europeans with a nice tan.
- Beautiful Agnetha Faltskog has the typical facial features of a Creek Indian woman in northern Georgia. With a nice tan, and without the dyed blond hair, no one would doubt her to be part Native American.
- This Assinboin teepee photographed in the 1890s is what most North Americans think of when they hear the word, teepee.
- Appearance of a Potawatomi teepee in late autumn or early spring, when there was no need for thatch.
- The inner core of Potawatomi teepees looked like a Lakota teepee, but they were sheaved with reeds and thatch. Photo of model at Citizen Potawatomi museum.
- The Potawatomi winter camps consisted of few teepees housing related families.
- Odawa (Ottawa) teepees were more dome-shaped than those of the Potawatomi, and generally lacked the inner lining of leather shingles.
- Ojibwa (Chippewa) teepees were shaped more like a modern tent and generally sheaved with roof bark shingles.
- The Creek chokopa apparently evolved from a simple pithouse; a teepee placed over a recessed floor.
- In the period between 1600 BC and 0 AD, Southeastern Native Americans learned how to build large teepees in their seasonal villages that could hold all of the elders for meetings.
- At least by 250 AD, large chokopas had become communal buildings. When rebuilt several times, low clay platforms developed. This one was near Asheville, NC.
- Around 1000 AD a large chokopa was constructed at what is now Ocmulgee National Monument, which contained fixed seats for 52 persons and a clay eagle that extended outward from the lead seats.
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