Tipi Calendar, Sept 2025 – Randy Billmeyer, Yarmouth, ME
Randy named his tipi Heart Haven, and it has become a refuge, sanctuary and quite the place of community for friends and neighbors. He always opens each gathering with a little ritual, honoring the local Wabanaki Tribe and holds drumming and chanting circles, as well as yoga classes and story telling for kids.
To purchase the calendar ($29), or if you have a stunning picture of your Nomadics tipi for this year’s calendar photo contest, please contact us at [email protected]
COMPANY NEWS
Happy Holidays to you
When it comes to company news, we like to share not only specifics about our tipis, but also news from the people who are making our amazing tipis. Our very talented senior artist Dale Samples (painting a buffalo head with her dog ‘Chief’ watching) told us about an inspiring story from the Blackfeet reservation, where she grew up. It is a personal story that she connects with because she knows the people and the land.
The story goes that “History was recently made as the Blackfeet Nation proudly became home to the first Native-led equine air scent detection Search and Rescue (SAR) team. Team members Nugget Mad Plume (with horse Comanche), Kelsey Mad Plume (with Jack), and Thomas Corona (with J’ose) represented the Blackfeet Nation with pride and resilience throughout the rigorous training process”.
Happy Holidays to you
Harvest and Festival Season
September is a month where preparations for pumpkin patches, labyrinth walking or U-pick activities are in full swing. It is also Festival and Sundance season, and tipis are going out to be part of celebrations, ceremonies and gatherings.
A tipi is a great addition to any outdoor activities, as it introduced children and adults alike to the Native American culture and their very close relationship to Mother Earth. In every tipi package, we add educational material that reminds its new owner that these are not just beautiful structures, but living artifacts of a culture that lived and still lives in very close connection, reverence and respect for the Earth who sustains us all.
ART DEPARTMENT
Your Corporate Logo
No matter how intricate and detailed your logo might be, our extremely talented artists can translate it onto your tipi cover or interior tipi liner. One of our more complicated logos we recently put onto a tipi was this combination of a complex seal and lettering in a variety of fonds and colors, all part of the “American Indian Counseling Center” Logo. They wanted it all – although we were relieved that they decided to leave the QR code out!
We also have done logos for campgrounds and retreat centers, trading posts and resorts who either offer lodging in tipis or sell tipis and Native regalia.
WE CARE
Supporting Unci Intertribal, CA
Nicole met Sofia, the director of Unci Intertribal, during the annual 1% Percent for The Planet Summit in San Diego. As a member of the 1% Community, Nomadics pledges to donate 1% of our total sales to non-profit, indigenous communities and Unci Intertribal is a wonderful organization that we support with pride.
Unci means Grandmother in Lakota Sioux. Unci Intertribal embraces the teachings, traditions and ways of life passed down by traditional elders, and centers Indigenous Knowledge, Voices, Lifeways, and Histories to protect and restore sacred environments, educate, and revitalize Indigenous identities, intertribally. Nomadics is honored to be able to contribute to this effort. Sofia asked us if we could donate a tipi for ceremonial use as well as educational use, and we sent her a new tipi cover in July. The first use of the tipi was during their annual Intertribal Explorers Outdoor Summer Enrichment Program that took place in July 2025 for an intertribal dance that public school students partook in.
TIPS AND TRICKS
Crafty Customers: Two Old Stoners
Dan is a very talented wood and stone carver who exhibits at art shows and sells his art online. He sent us these two snake pins, beautifully carved and painted. This is a work of love just to have tipi pins – and you can order just one as a highlight above the door or a full set of various colored designs. Thank you, Dan, for your gift and inspiration.
