Record details

• ISBN: 048622029X
• ISBN: 9780486220291
• Physical Description: 106 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: New York, Dover Publications [1969]

Content descriptions

General Note:

First published under title: Universal Indian sign language of the Plains Indians of North America.

"Unabridged and corrected republication of the 1931 fifth edition."

"Meaning of signs in French and German as well as English."

Formatted Contents Note:

Pictorial section -- Introductory notes -- Dictionary of the Indian sign language -- One way to tell your name and where you live -- Indian moons or months -- Sign language simplified -- Two hundred signs in most general use -- An Indian blessing -- Boy Scout oath expressed in idiom -- Examples of sentence formation -- Synonyms -- Location of East and West in sign language -- Pictography and ideography of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes of North American Indians -- A pictographic story for our young friends -- Pictographic correspondence of today -- Co-relating sign language and pictography -- Smoke signals -- History of sign language -- General use of idioms -- Sentences for practice -- Vitalizing a sign language program to fit a Boy Scout troop meeting program -- Suggested troop program -- Indian ceremony for opening Council Fire -- Some sign language suggestions -- Suggestions for playlets -- Indian ceremonial initiation for Boy Scouts -- Sign language exercises suitable for passing tests -- Immortality -- A word to advanced students.

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Indian sign language.
Indians of North America > Great Plains > Language.