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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.
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Indian sign language.
1969, Dover Publications
in English, French, and German
048622029X 9780486220291
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Universal Indian sign language of the plains Indians of North America: together with a simplified method of study, a list of words in most general use, a codification of pictographic symbols of the Sioux and Ojibway : a dictionary of synonyms, a history of sign language, chapters on smoke signaling, use of idioms, etc. and other important co-related matter
1929, William Tomkins
in English
- Third edition.
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"Officially adopted by the Boy Scouts of America, and Sign Language made a Second-Class and First-Class Scout requirement. Endorsed and recommended by the founder of Scouting, Sir Robert Baden Powell, Chief Scout of the World, to the Boy Scouts of all nations, 43 countries being interested in Scouting. Received the unqualified endorsement of the Smithsonian Institute, endorsed by World Alliance Y.M.C.A. of Geneva, Switzerland; by National Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts, Inc.; by the Boy Rangers of America, and by Commissioner Chas. H. Burke, U.S. Indian Bureau, Washington, D.C."
"Adopted by the American Library Association and the American Indian Association. Approved by the Society Internationale D'Philologie Sciences et Beaux Arts; endorsed by the Pacific Coast Section National Camping Directors' Association, and recommended by National Playground and Recreation Association and by the Boys' Club Federation. Extensively used by Indian Schools and by the Boy Scout Associations of England and Canada."
Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
"French and German equivalents are shown with each illustration."
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