Teepees are lit with colored lights in this long exposure photograph as a Delta flight from Minneapolis flies overhead as it approaches Billings Logan International Airport at Swords Park in Billings, Montana, on Dec. 19, 2020. The installation is in honor of those who have died this year and also a symbol of hope. (Mike Clark/Billings Gazette via AP)
December 25, 2020
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December 26, 2020 midnight
Teepees erected atop Rimrocks to honor those who died
BILLINGS (AP) — William Snell's record for erecting a teepee is just under 14 minutes. It's a bit more complicated in the winter, he said, but in a little more than five hours on Saturday, seven teepees were standing tall atop the Billings Rimrocks, their white canvas taut against the winter winds moving across the snowy prairie.