"When you do a teepee race first you practice and then you take a break. You gather together and a crowd will come. You get into even teams and you take your teepee supplies like pegs, poles, canvas, buttons, and doors to the end of the fence at the Indian Village. You put your supplies down and then you go to the other end of the fence. The crowd starts the race by counting down from three to one. You race to your supplies and try to build your teepee as fast as you can. The winner is the team who has their teepee up the fastest and most correct.

The teepees are small and there's no painting on the canvas. They are judged by being set up correctly with no mistakes. They check the outside and inside of the teepee. It must be stable. Then you need to take them down again and the winner is the team who is does all that first. If you win, you get one thousand dollars.

They have races for adults and kids.

Reg Crowshoe told us that he thinks that there are teepee races so that kids will learn how to set up teepees.

We learned that the teepee Raising Contest comes from Indian camps who followed buffalo herds across the prairie. People would have competitions for setting up camps quickly and correctly. teepee Raising Contests are very old and they are like the chuckwagon races where the chuckwagons raced to set up camps for the cowboys who drove cattle."

Ricci - Grade 4 student