Reply #45: And they say the Native Americans were ignorant savages......

[AnneD]

think of all the disposable diapers sitting in landfills when your read this......

I went to the Museum of the Plains Indians once we we traveled to Cody, Wyo.and learned much (Mom has Plains Indian up her tree). Disposable diapers were very new at the time and the ecology movement wasn't. I was traveling with my half brother who was just over a year old. I was use to cloth so disposables while traveling was the bee's knee's.

Well, the Plains Indians had ecologically efficient diapers first. They took dried buffalo chips and pounded them into a fine powder. They placed the powder in the cradle board base and strap the child and and go about their work. The powder is absorbent and actually had a sweet smell. They would take the urine soaked powder and dry it and reuse it for several more times. If the child was sitting in bull...they pitched it :hide: