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Indian Sign Language (Native American)
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Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the world.
With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words — hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals.
This is a book for anyone who wants to learn or teach Indian sign language — scouts, school teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, parents, linguists, and students of Indian culture. To help counselors and teachers, the last chapters give instructions on how to conduct the Indian ceremony for opening a council fire, an Indian initiation ceremony, and suggestions for sign language tests and exercises.
With this book, you will find it simple to use this language, which the author learned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, principally from Sioux Indians in Wyoming. Drawings and short descriptions make clear the proper positions and motions of the hands to convey the meaning of over 870 alphabetically arranged common words — hungry, camp, evening, angry, fire, laugh, owl, cat, many times, brave, cold, heart, rain, spotted, together, river, etc. The words are then used in sample sentences. There are also brief sections on the pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes, and on smoke signals.
This is a book for anyone who wants to learn or teach Indian sign language — scouts, school teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, parents, linguists, and students of Indian culture. To help counselors and teachers, the last chapters give instructions on how to conduct the Indian ceremony for opening a council fire, an Indian initiation ceremony, and suggestions for sign language tests and exercises.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Dover Publications (20 April 2012) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 11773 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 259 pages |
by welsh dragon
I have an obsession with native americans so will buy any book relating to them. This book is clear and concise. However, I think it would be even easier to study in hardcopy. It’s a bit too fiddly for me on kindle when I want to flip back and forth to check things.
by xsammiex
i bought thisfor my dad as a christmas present, and i know he will love it. it is small enough that it isn’t difficult to hold or too lengthy to read, but informative enough. brilliant!
by Amazon Customer
For someone who is interested in this topic in general,this book will provide you with plenty of words to build your “vocab” and to play around with ideas and how to structure sentences. The book is short,yes,but it gets straight to the point and it shows a huge amount of signs nontheless. At the end you are provided with some examples of sentence structure and the way you should think to build them in your head,so to speak. The only bad thing is that its short and could use more sentence examples that are more suited to our nowaday times,however can really blame anyone for this as the interest in ISL is very low as far as im aware. So any knowledge that is passed by someone to help us,ambitios folk who are eager to learn and would like to actually use it one day, I think, Is greatly greatly appreciated.
by xiteforp
Great concise book. It will only take a short while to work out that the cover shows the signs for “Good. Book. (Native American) Indian. Sign Language.” which is exactly what it is.
The sign for “Thank you” is on page 56, top right, contrary to what one reviewer said. “Please” is probably covered by “Question. I. [Action verb]. Perhaps.” or similar.