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looking for tipi village in america to join ... any legal ones out there ?

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JackCrafty:
 ;D

Let me add that I would like to have LOTS of trees on my farm.  I get a little twitchy if I can't get fresh bow/arrow wood.

Dharma:
Well, out on the Navajo Nation, people can live in hogans if they want to. Usually, it's just very traditional people who do. Even the smaller towns on the Rez have electricity and so on. I can tell you that the water in Many Farms isn't so great. But the thing about a Hogan is, it stays warm provided you have firewood. But the toilet is an outhouse and the bathing done in a basin. Not a lot of people opt for this even though they can if they want to. Mostly hogans are used for ceremonies, but some people will live in them as a temporary thing until they can find something else.

In other words, on the Rez, people could live in such dwellings but not many choose to. Many people like electricity and running water, even if they mostly rely on a woodstove for heat.

Wylden Freeborne:
Hey, good thread! My family and I just left Tipi Village, in Southern Oregon, after a year of living there. We left to come visit family in Missouri for a bit and are pitching our lodge here for the winter until we can afford the drive back to Oregon. I can say that it was a fantastic village, without any "on the run thieves" or anything of the sort. People just love scaring people away from the wilderness, mostly cause people are scared of the wilderness themselves. That is probably because most folk think they can do it all alone like some wonder cowboy, but the truth is, WE NEED COMMUNITY. It is as necessary to the human animal as water , air and fire. That said, I hope you made it out to the village, and I just wish we would have been there when you arrived to welcome you. Perhaps you will be there when we return! If you want to read a bit I have written about the village, I have two posts title Tipi Living- on this site. Be well and aim true.

Mickey:
I have been on some extended primitive bowhunts in Montana and Alaska and two things I learned was the guy that invented the hot shower was the smartest man on earth right behind the guys that invented fast food, furnaces (camp fires are romantic but a PIA to keep going and you always smell like smoke) and water filters pumps. I got so tired of working from  sun up to sun down, not seeing or not being able to get close enough to game to get myself meat.... much less being able to get fresh vegetables, or fruit. I got tired of being cold and dirty an it amazed me how much water it takes just to exist. It also takes a lot of energy just to exist. Pert near gave up on keeping my hands clean, and brushing my teeth and changing out of my dirty clothes even...and leaves are NOT a good substitute for toilet paper. And Lord help you if you need a doctor or dentist.

Some people say they were born 100 years too late .. not me .. I'd rather enjoy todays amenities (and pressures to tell you the truth) and just VISIT 100 years ago from time to time... for a couple weeks max..

Wylden Freeborne:
We had hot showers daily, twenty miles into the wilderness! There was a mountain spring uphill from the village about 350 feet that a spring box was built to allow water to collect and spill over enough to maintain a natural flow. The box was bored out in the bottom and spigot attached which led out into a hose. At about 25 feet above the garden, it split into three hoses, one of which was black. The black hose ran for about a hundred feet and sat on the grass in the sun. 90 degree showers for 15 minutes at a time every hour!

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