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Plains Sign Language's antecedents, if any, are unknown due to a lack of written records. However, the earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast region in what is now Texas and northern Mexico note a fully formed sign language already in use by the time of the Europeans' arrival there. [10]
The Indian Sign Language Conference was filmed September 4-6, 1930, in Browning, Montana. This event was the largest intertribal meeting of Indian chiefs,elders, medicine men, and other representatives ever filmed.
The Canadian Language Museum currently has a traveling exhibit featuring six different sign languages used in Canada: American Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Language, Inuit Sign Language, Maritime Sign Language, and Oneida Sign Language. This exhibit teaches people about the history of the language and who uses it.
In Native American communities prior to 1492, it seems that Plains Indian Sign Language existed as an extensive lingua franca used for trade and possibly ceremonies, story-telling and also daily communication by deaf people. [6]
A sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the Great Plains region of North America (see Plains Indian Sign Language) before European contact. It was used by hearing people to communicate among tribes with different spoken languages, as well as by deaf people.
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Plateau Sign Language, or Old Plateau Sign Language, is a poorly attested, extinct sign language historically used across the Columbian Plateau.The Crow Tribe introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur d’Alene, Sanpoil, Okanagan, Thompson, Lakes, Shuswap, and Colville), with western nations [which?] shifting instead to ...
I'd like to change all mentions of Plains Sign Talk to Plains Sign Language, and remove the paragraph in the lead that says that Plains Sign Talk is the preferred name in Canada due to the pejorative nature of the term Indian. Any thoughts? Aamri2 22:31, 7 August 2023 (UTC) Only some consider "Indian" pejorative.