WHAT DID THeY DO ABOUT THEIR PERIODS?!!!?!
Question: what did the native americans do about their periods, i mean every woman gets one and they probably didn't have pads and what not. Did they just let it go down their leg?!?!?
does anyone know what they did!?
Answers: what did the native americans do about their periods, i mean every woman gets one and they probably didn't have pads and what not. Did they just let it go down their leg?!?!?
does anyone know what they did!?
I am surprised that girls/women in the US do not know about this question as it is part of American history.
The native American women had a communal "Women's Teepee" to which they went during menstruation and kept themselves clean inside using water and sometimes a steam bath.
they most likely put some kind of cloth to keep it from coming down there legs.
I'm sure they did SOMETHING .. ya know? I doubt that they "let it go down their leg" lol
they actually put pebbles and rocks up there I THINK my health teacher said that. they had to stick them like all the way up in their cervix so no blood could get through at all lol ouch! =[
cloth
They may have used sheep skin or animal fur. I guess that's what I'd do if I had an animal and no paper products lol.
Navajo (the tribe I'm from) used goat's hair as pads to soak up the blood, a long time ago. I remember it was taboo for a man to touch it after it was used and discarded.
In some tribes, it is customary to stay away from the woman during her period mainly because she was bitchy, moody, and yelled a lot!
Our tribe has a 4 day ceremony to celebrate a girl's first ever period. It's called a Kinaalda.
Being Native American, yeah, that can have all kinds of benefits. hahaha There's also a taboo about mother-in-laws in our Navajo culture. The son or daughter in-law is NEVER supposed to look at or communicate with the mother in-law at all times!
Been told by a Lakota woman that things like a strip of soft deer skin and moss were used.