DCHP-1 Online
dead lodge 
Obs. a teepee in which those dead from disease were abandoned.
See also: death teepee (def. 1)
- 1933 The preceding year [1869] smallpox had swept through the Blackfoot tribes and left in its wake whole camps of "dead lodges," the mortality being estimated . . . at forty or fifty percent.
- 1933 The preceding year [1869] smallpox had swept through the Blackfoot tribes and left in its wake whole camps of "dead lodges," the mortality being estimated . . . at forty or fifty percent.