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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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  • The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...
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    spoken languages. A sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the Great Plains region of North America (see Plains Indian Sign Language) before...
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  • Pueblo, New Mexico). Keresan Sign Language developed locally, and is unrelated to the trade language Plains Indian Sign Language. Kelley, Walter & Tony McGregor...
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    OK gesture (redirect from OK sign)
    sign for the number 9 becomes the number 19. In Plains Indian Sign Language, the gesture signifies the number 3 when held a bit lower than the signs used...
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    the Columbian Plateau. The Crow Nation introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur...
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  • case with Caucasian Sign Language but not Plains Indian Sign Language, which did not involve speech taboo, or deaf sign languages, which are not encodings...
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    used by Plains Tribes to refer to the Shoshone. They called the Shoshone "snake" referring to the Shoshone sign in Plains Indian Sign Language for the...
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    The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan group who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically...
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    cultural area (Algonquian and Iroquoian languages) Plains cultural area (Algonquian, Plains Sign, and Siouan languages) Northwest Plateau cultural area (Ktunaxa...
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    described many common features of Plains Indians culture: skin tepees, travois pulled by dogs, Plains Indian Sign Language, and staple foods such as jerky...
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    form of sign language for trade and communication among various Inuit languages, a similar role to that played by Plains Indian Sign Language further...
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    Plains Cree (endonym: ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ nēhiyawēwin; alternatively: ᐸᐢᑳᐧᐃᐧᓃᒧᐃᐧᐣ paskwâwinîmowin "language of the prairie people") is a dialect of the Algonquian...
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    Quebec Sign Language, known in French as Langue des signes québécoise or Langue des signes du Québec (LSQ), is the predominant sign language of deaf communities...
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    American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...
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    sign-language trade pidgin, known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Standard or Plains Sign Talk, arose among the Native Americans of the plains...
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  • Hand Talk. Also called Prairie Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Language, or First Nations Sign Language, this language functioned predominantly—and still...
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    of Ghana, Ban Khor Sign Language of Thailand, and Plains Indian Sign Language. Many sign languages are used by small communities; small changes in their...
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    the Brazos River. By 1840 many plains tribes had made peace with each other and developed Plains Indian Sign Language as a means of communicate with their...
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    Massachusett Plains Indian Sign Language While most Indigenous languages have adopted the Latin script as the written form of their languages, a few languages have...
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  • PSD (section Language)
    project for the ancient language isolate Plains Indian Sign Language (ISO 639-3 code: psd) Proto-South Dravidian, unattested language of south India Social...
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    Southern Plains Cree, Northern Plains Cree may readily substitute ⟨ē⟩ with ⟨ī⟩, while materials accommodating Rocky Cree will indicate the Plains Cree [j]...
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    Mountain Chief (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    preservation of Plains Indian Sign Language and consulted with General Hugh L. Scott at the Bureau of American Ethnology on Native American sign language. Mountain...
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    Iron Eyes Cody (redirect from Crying indian)
    he discussed early Western filmmaker William S. Hart's use of Plains Indian Sign Language.[clarification needed] The Joni Mitchell song "Lakota", from...
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  • hearing due to an illness, communicated with the Kiowa using Plains Indian sign language. She lived among the Kiowa for about eleven years, sharing their...
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  • Ernest Goes to Camp (category 1980s English-language films)
    becomes a valuable addition to the staff, as he is skilled at Plains Indian Sign Language, used by Kikakee's owner, Chief St. Cloud. A small group of juvenile...
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    Arapaho (redirect from Arapaho Indian)
    mother tribe of the Arapaho, being indicated in the Plains Indian Sign Language (Bee3sohoet) by the sign for "mother people". They absorbed the historic Hánahawuuena...
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    Kanatsiohareke was created to be a "Carlisle Indian Boarding School in Reverse", teaching Mohawk language and culture.[2] Located at the ancient homeland...
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    /kɔ́j–gʷú/ in their language. Some older Kiowas will say Kiowa as KI-wah /ˈkaɪ.wɑː/.[citation needed] In Plains Indian Sign Language, Kiowa is expressed...
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  • 19th-century Plains Indians. The book was dictated to Marquis by Wooden Leg in Plains Indian Sign Language, their only common language. Marquis gathered...
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