Tipi Calendar, November 2025 – Ken Pasque, Warren, MI

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]

Native American Heritage Month

To recognize and honor Native American Heritage Month, we are offering a 15% discount to everyone on the purchase of a Nomadics tipi (unpainted cover/liner/door – one per customer) for the month of November. The order has to be paid in full by Nov. 30th. This month celebrates the traditions, languages, stories and contributions of Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated Island communities. This is a great time to educate ourselves about Native cultures, their histories and the current challenges facing these communities.

If you would like to continue learning about Native American issues, you can join us in subscribing to newsletters by Native organizations such as:

Lakota People’s Law Project – subscribe to [email protected]
NDN Collective – subscribe to [email protected]
Native American Rights Fund – subscribe to [email protected]
Warrior Women Project – subscribe to [email protected]

Catching Your Dreams

Dreamcatchers are handmade willow hoops woven to a web or literally, a net. They can include feathers and beads, and they’re traditionally suspended on cradles or a place of rest as a form of armor and protection. Native Americans of the Great Plains believe the air is filled with both good and bad dreams. According to dreamcatcher legend, the good dreams pass through the center hole to the sleeping person. The bad dreams are trapped in the web where they perish in the light of dawn. (www.stjo.org)

We have been asked to paint dreamcatcher images as the top of a tipi as well as shields on the tipi canvas or the tipi door. We decorate them with colorful feathers and beads, and can adapt the style to be more realistic or dream-like…. You choose.

Tipi Gallery 

Buzzard’s Roost – Terlingua, TX

The “Buzzard’s Roost” is located in the heart of the small town of Terlingua, Texas – walking distance from the Historic Terlingua Ghost Town’s shops and restaurants, and just minutes away from the entrance of Big Bend National Park. They have 3 traditional, hand-painted, fully furnished Nomadics’ glamping tipis on the far end of their property, each offering privacy and unobstructed stargazing in what is considered the darkest night sky area in the country. All accommodations have queen beds, soft linens and towels, plush bathrobes, in-room coffee / tea, refrigerators, outdoor seating, private hammocks, and private fire pits with cooking grates. The larger tipis and the tiny house also have full-size sofa beds for extra guests.

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Crafts-R-Us: Using up our scrap

It is always with a heavy heart that we are sending our fabric scraps, fabric role cores and empty rope spools to the landfill. We are trying to reuse and recycle as much as we can and have even contacted schools with a contest to come up with ideas on how to reuse and recycle.

For a while, we were making little stools out of the empty cores for the rope, but the production cost alone for painting the top with animals, painting the core in brown and to have it all professionally upholstered was so high, that we were not able to sell many. 

Some of our other creative ideas are quite silly, such as our ‘canvas hat’, but others are very practical and well made. We all love the beautiful canvas bags that our seamstresses make, or the organizers for the tipi entrance. The canvas pillows are a bit stiff and we mainly give them away as presents, but the door ’snake’, the canvas tube and flap below the door hole, does work very well in keeping the draft out and preventing critters from coming in. We do sell the canvas bags, canvas snakes, organizers and pillow covers on our website, in the tipi builder.

We collect our fabric scraps in big garbage bags and offer them on craigslist for free or bring them to the Warm Springs Reservation where they are used for backing of beaded artwork.

If you have more ideas what we could do with our fabric scrap, please let us know.