chickee , also: chikee

Each chickee had its own purpose and together they were organized within a camp-type community.

When he surveyed the campsite, everything appeared to be in order, until he got to Nelson's chickee.

Each chickee has an outhouse connected to the camping platform by a narrow walkway.

Three chickee sites (wooden platforms built above the waterline) are spaced along the trail.

An authentic Seminole chickee was constructed outside.

I was left wanting only a little more information: How did Mr. Chickee come into possession of the bill?

The Muskogean spelling for chickee is "chiki."

Inside are hi-tech comforts; outside by the pool are cabins in traditional "chickee" hut style.

The School has also constructed a new headmaster's residence and erected a chickee chapel, a symbol of school heritage.

Seminoles continued their distinctive life, such as "clan-based matrilocal residence in scattered thatched-roof chickee camps."

Chickee (pavilion)

Experienced paddlers can plunge right into a days-long journey, camping on raised "chickee" platforms or sand spits.

A Florida cracker farmstead is displayed, as well as a Seminole-style chickee for picnics.

They passed a cluster of thatched chickee huts with Yamaha dirt bikes and a Camaro out front. "

The boardwalk also features a Seminole chickee hut as well as several gazebos, which have descriptive signs offering information on the wildlife and plant life.

The sun was setting as I reached the Sunday Bay chickee, where I was scheduled to pitch my tent.

The camp still stands today, with his cabin, a guest cabin, a chickee shelter, docks, a boathouse, and assorted cages from his zoo.

There was talk of evacuating some families from their chickee huts on the reservation until the Corps of Engineers plugged a bordering canal to divert the flood.

Overnights include sleeping in a screened-in chickee, listening to campfire storytelling, taking an airboat or swamp buggy ride and having Indian meals (catfish, fry bread, gator nuggets).

To make a living after leaving the chairmanship, Billie returned to his Jim Billie Seminole Indian Chiki Huts business, building the traditional chickee open houses.

Steven Carter, the hero of Christopher Paul Curtis's new book, "Mr. Chickee's Funny Money," is a very smart 9-year-old, "the second-smartest student at Clark Elementary."

I stopped for a drink at the water cooler in the chickee hut, a local Seminole thatched-roof structure at the edge of the Florida native garden, and realized my energy was starting to wane.

Or at least to a resting place like the Sunday Bay chickee, where we pitched our tent on a platform in the middle of the water, boiled our evening tea and watched the sun go down.

Seminoles made their villages in hammocks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; they lived in groups of chickees numbering half a dozen, with one central chickee for cooking and another for eating.