Through Indian Sign Language

Download or read book Through Indian Sign Language written by William C. Meadows and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa soldier named Iseeo, Scott collected three volumes of information on American Indian life and culture—a body of ethnographic material conveyed through Plains Indian Sign Language (in which Scott was highly accomplished) and recorded in handwritten English. This remarkable resource—the largest of its kind before the late twentieth century—appears here in full for the first time, put into context by noted scholar William C. Meadows. The Scott ledgers contain an array of historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data—a wealth of primary-source material on Southern Plains Indian people. Meadows describes Plains Indian Sign Language, its origins and history, and its significance to anthropologists. He also sketches the lives of Scott and Iseeo, explaining how they met, how Scott learned the language, and how their working relationship developed and served them both. The ledgers, which follow, recount a variety of specific Plains Indian customs, from naming practices to eagle catching. Scott also recorded his informants’ explanations of the signs, as well as a multitude of myths and stories. On his fellow officers’ indifference to the sign language, Lieutenant Scott remarked: “I have often marveled at this apathy concerning such a valuable instrument, by which communication could be held with every tribe on the plains of the buffalo, using only one language.” Here, with extensive background information, Meadows’s incisive analysis, and the complete contents of Scott’s Fort Sill ledgers, this “valuable instrument” is finally and fully accessible to scholars and general readers interested in the history and culture of Plains Indians.

Download or read book Indian Sign Language written by William Tomkins and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs. Learn over 525 signs, developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and others. Book also contains 290 pictographs of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes.

Download or read book Hand Talk written by Jeffrey E. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a unique case of sign language that served as an international language among numerous Native American nations not sharing a common spoken language. The book contains the most current descriptions of all levels of the language from phonology to discourse, as well as comparisons with other sign languages.

Download or read book Indian Sign Language written by Robert Hofsinde and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1956 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of Indian sign language and its meanings.

Download or read book Keeping Languages Alive written by Mari C. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.

Download or read book The Indian Sign Language written by William Philo Clark and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under orders from General Sheridan, Captain W. P. Clark spent over six years among the Plains Indians and other tribes studying their sign language. In addition to an alphabetical cataloguing of signs, Clark gives valuable background information on many tribes and their history and customs. Considered the classic of its field, this book provides, entirely in prose form, how to speak the language entirely through sign language, without one diagram provided.

Download or read book Do You See what I Mean? written by Brenda Margaret Farnell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains, who spoke very different languages. Here, Farnell reveals how PST is still an integral component of the stroytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture.