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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]
English: Fragments of an American documentary film on the Plains Indians Sign Language. According to Jeffrey Davis in Hand Talk: Sign Language among American Indian Nation, the project of this film was funded and completed in 1930 by an Act of the U.S. Congress.
He was at Indiana University from June 1955 to June 1959, doing field work among Plains Indians, the results of which were published with his doctoral dissertation, entitled "The Sign Language, An Analysis," a study of Plains Indian Sign Language, which was the most sophisticated non-verbal language among North American Indians. [5]
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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.
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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Mountain Chief was interested in the preservation of Plains Indian Sign Language [6] and consulted with General Hugh L. Scott at the Bureau of American Ethnology [13] on Native American sign language. [5] Mountain Chief later served as a tribal delegate at the Indian Sign Language Council in 1930. [14] Gen.