wigwam

“There were a lot of buildings in our culture that made simple symbolic references like animals or traditional longhouses and wigwams,” Mr. Cornelius said.

The course was jointly led by Ojibwe elders, who taught him how to knap flint, tan hides and build wigwams.

Madison’s preferred location for the national capital was a “wigwam place” suitable for hunting parties and hermits.

“But they would never have built their wigwam right there on the edge of the beach, because it’s dangerous. It floods, it’s exposed to the winds.”

This production rightly omits, for instance, the “Wa Tan We” girls of the “local wigwam of Heeawatha” and their “Indian war dance.”