get a load of this!

My cousins up the road have an authentic teepee........we have heap big parties around teepee.

I should build one of these... wonder how many buffalo I need to kill...

they actually have about $5K tied up in JUST the teepee.

that is not to mention the french drains, the power line to the teepee, the gravel, etc.

they waste a lot of money.

powerlines....to a teepee?

Pimp my Teepee...

That heap nice teepee, Andy! Your cousins must be rich Indians with many pick up trucks!

Yeah, I'm sure that some "Native Americans" would be flying an "American" flag......

Chief has plans to put one up.

#3 They'll make it back with slot machines.

NEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^The casino down the road from me is busy, busy, busy. Local tribe is making piles of loot.

However, they have and are failing to address some of the negative impact (compulsive gambling/effect on families, embezzlement to access money to go gamble, etc.) on the community of their operation.

They need to do this, and they know it--they just aren't. Bah!

#10 That's too bad. Some of the tribes around here have been pumping funds back into the tribe to pay for treatment, schooling, etc. I'm sure there are some members who are making a very nice living, too, but it is nice to see at least a couple are plowing some back under.

That's pretty cool, but what's up with the "rainbow" flags/streamers ?

rainbow streamers? two-spirit kinfolk?

There's a guy near me that makes them.

As a kid when my dad and I would go to the black powder rendevous, sometimes I would spend the night in our friends tipi. Pretty cool experience really.