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Sign language or "sign talk" was an important means of communicating to the plains people. A good understanding of signing was quite common among the various tribes of the Great Plains, the Western desert areas, Apaches, Arapahoe, Arivkaree, Blackfoot,
Comanches, Kiowas, Caddos, Cayuses, Cherokees, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Coeur d'Alenes, Crows, Gros Ventres, Flatheads, Kootenays, Pawnees, Osage Nez Perce, Sacs, Fox, Pend d'Oreeilles, Pottawattomies, Sioux, and Ojibway Spokanes, Yakimas
These books are for anyone who wants to learn or teach Indian sign language. They will be of particular interest to scouts and scout leaders, school teachers, parents, linguists, historians, and students of Native American culture.
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This comprehensive book is the straightforward guide that will help you start learning American Indian sign language. Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs! Use this book to learn over 525 signs developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe
and other plains tribes! Written instructions and diagrams show you how to
make the words, construct sentences.
Also includes 290 pictographs (language in pictures) and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway Nations.
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This extensively researched work by a noted Canadian naturalist relies largely on the signs and gestures used by Cheyenne Indians. It features an extensive, alphabetically arranged vocabulary of over 1,700 terms (with French and German equivalents), accompanied by 700 of the author's own illustrations of how to make a specific gesture for each word. Placement of nouns, pronouns, verbs, and other parts of speech, along with many other aspects of Indian sign language, are simply and briefly explained.
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One language connected all tribes of Americans not long ago. This book is filled with translations from English to
Native American Sign Language as well the historical facts related to the period that this book was written. Even tribal
accents are noted as certain tribes expressed the same words using their own habitual pronunciations in sign. This book not
only clearly explains the language but paints a picture alphabetically of the subjects, abstract and tangible, that Native
Americans talked about in 1877.
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In 1876 and 1877, Captain W. P. Clark commanded a detachment of Indian scouts—including Pawnees, Shoshones, Arapahoes, Cheyennes,
Crows, and Sioux—who conversed in sign language. They made requests, relayed information, and told stories with their hands,
communicating in a language indispensable for quick understanding between Indians of different tribes. The scouts patiently
taught Clark the sign system, which he patiently recorded in this book.
Originally written in 1884 for use by the United States Army, The Indian Sign Language is far more than a grammar book or curiosity.
Clark worked closely with the Indians who taught him the language, and his respect for them and their way of thinking informs every
page. Written for future officers in Indian regions, The Indian Sign Language corrects the sentimental and brutal stereotypes of
Indians that led to much misunderstanding.
Clark believed that sign language could assist him "to think like the Indians," which he considered essential for a conscientious
officer. His book discusses reliably and soberly the facts of plains Indian life as he encountered them in the 1870s and 1880s.
Now a classic, The Indian Sign Language is a monument to the desire for understanding between radically different peoples.
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