Sign Language Among North American Indians

Sign Language Among North American Indians

Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-MutesBy Garrick Mallery
Michael Caine
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Over the period of two years author has devoted the intervals between official duties to collecting and collating materials for the study of sign language. As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary. The high development of communication by gesture among the tribes of North America, and its continued extensive use by many of them, naturally directed the first researches to that continent, with the result that a large body of facts procured from collaborators and by personal examination has now been gathered and classified.

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GenreHistory
Length13 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introductory
39Iroquoian
2Divisions of Gesture Speech
40Kaiowan
3Gestures of the Lower Animals
41Kutinean
4Gestures of Young Children
42Panian
5Gestures in Mental Disorder
43Piman
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6Uninstructed Deaf-mutes
44Sahaptian
7Gestures of the Blind
45Shoshonian
8Loss of Speech by Isolation
46Tinnean
9Low Tribes of Man
47Wichitan
10Gestures as an Occasional Resource
48Zuñian
11Gestures of Fluent Talkers
49Foreign Correspondence
12Involuntary Response to Gestures
50Extracts from Dictionary
13Natural Pantomime
51Tribal Signs
14Conclusions
52Tendoy-Huerito Dialogue
15History of Gesture Language
53Omaha Colloquy
16Use by Other Peoples than North American Indians
54Brulé Dakota Colloquy
17Use by Modern Actors and Orators
55Dialogue Between Alaskan Indians
18Our Indian Conditions Favorable to Sign Language
56Ojibwa Dialogue
19Not Correlated with Meagerness of Language
57Nátci's Narrative
20Its Origin from One Tribe or Region
58Patricio's Narrative
21Is the Indian System Special and Peculiar?
59Na-wa-gi-jig's Story
22To What Extent Prevalent as a System
60Address of Kin Chē-ĕss
23Are Signs Conventional or Instinctive?
61Tso-di-a'-ko's Report
24Classes of Diversities in Signs
62Lean Wolf's Complaint
25Practical Application
63Signals
26Relations to Philology
64Signals Executed by Bodily Action
27Sign Language with Reference to Grammar
65Signals In Which Objects are Used in Connection with Personal Action
28Gestures Aiding Archæologic Research
66Smoke Signals Generally
29Invention of New Signs
67Smoke Signals of the Apaches
30Danger of Symbolic Interpretation
68Foreign Smoke Signals
31Signs Used by Women and Children
69Fire Arrows
32Positive Signs Rendered Negative
70Dust Signals
33Details of Positions of Fingers
71Notes on Cheyenne and Arapaho Signals
34Motions Relative to Parts of the Body
72Scheme of Illustration
35Suggestions for Collecting Signs
73Outlines for Arm Positions in Sign Language
36Mode in which Researches have been Made
74Types of Hand Positions in Sign Language
37Algonkian
75Examples
38Dakotan

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