Title: Indian sign language.
Authors: Tomkins, William
Publisher: Dover Publications,
Year: 1969
Subjects: Indian sign language; Indians of North America Great Plains Language.
Abstract: Publisher description: Learn to communicate without words with these authentic signs! Learn over 525 signs developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe and other tribes! Written instructions and diagrams show you how to make the words, construct sentences. Book also contains 290 pictographs (language in pictures) of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes.
Contents: 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.