Buckskin Tanner

Buckskin Tanneris the author Jaime Jackson! who narrates thestory of his adventure into natural tanning, beginningin the early 1950s at Disneyland's Indian Village,where, as a young boy, his father took him to meetelder Native Americans brought by Walt Disney toguide park technicians construct the village. This wasduring the year before the park officially opened. ';Iremember a dialogue between my father and some ofthe Indians about native tanning and the hide tipisput together there. The women traditionally tannedthe hides and sewed them together into tipis. But thehides used here were commercially tanned. I wonderedhow they did the tanning during the bygone buffalodays. And that is how it all began for me.'