Plains Sign & the Myth of Indigenous Illiteracy | TwinRabbit
Channel: Twin Rabbit
Date: 2020-06-24

A discussion of the history of Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL or "Hand Talk") and its relationship to pre-contact Native American literature, symbolism, and history.

Note: I screwed up on the edit and so the video says "Custer's Last Stand" was Wounded Knee, when it was earlier at Greasy Grass.

Citations:

Hunt ~ Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South (Jan Simek’s “unnamed caves”) –
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/358-1911/features/8074-america-southeast-cherokee-caves

Voice of America ~ Native American Hand-Talkers Fight to Keep Sign Language Alive –
https://www.voanews.com/arts-culture/native-american-hand-talkers-fight-keep-sign-language-alive

McKay-Cody ~ Memory Comes Before Knowledge- North American Indigenous Deaf: Socio-cultural Study of Rock/Picture Writing, Community, Sign Languages, and Kinship –
https://shareok.org/handle/11244/319767

Baker ~ The Native American Deaf Experience: Cultural, Linguistic, and Educational Perspectives –
https://shareok.org/bitstream/handle/11244/33720/Thesis-1996D-B168N.pdf?sequence=1

Daughter of Dawn (remastered) –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_695qZH3GZI

Davis ~ Hand Talk: Sign Language among American Indian Nations –
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sign-language/hand-talk-sign-language-among-american-indian-nations?format=HB&isbn=9780521870108

Mallery ~ Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes –
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17451/17451-h/17451-h.htm

Graber ~ Who put Native American sign language in the US mail? (Cozad Letter) –
https://blog.oup.com/2018/05/native-american-sign-language-us-mail/

Braithwaite ~ A Sketch of the Linguistic Geography of Signed Languages in the Caribbean –
https://www.academia.edu/34865535/A_Sketch_of_the_Linguistic_Geography_of_Signed_Languages_in_the_Caribbean?email_work_card=view-paper

Overly Sarcastic Productions ~ Miscellaneous Myths: Quetzalcoatl –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=451jzIesWoU

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