This catalog page lists books about American Indian Sign Language.
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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Indian Sign Language / ISBN: 048622029X 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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Sign Talk of the Cheyenne Indians / ISBN: 0486414345 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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Indian Sign Language / ISBN: 0803263090 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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