"Talking Without Words in the Old West" (2009)
Directed by Sally Thompson
Before Euro-American settlement of the West, a sophisticated system of non-verbal communication allowed for intricate relationships between the many tribes of the Great Plains. This illuminating account of the complex communication systems is told by Native Americans from the various tribes who developed and used the languages.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Dr. Thompson has spent over thirty years working with native tribes of the West. She has worked as an archaeologist, ethnographer, and ethnohistorian. As founder of the Regional Learning Project, she oversaw a team of specialists with a focus on regional history, geography and culture, interviewing over 200 elders of 37 tribes and used the results to produce several documentaries and three websites. More recently, she worked with traditionalists from the Kootenai and Blackfeet tribes on a book about their traditional seasonal grounds through the Crown of the Continent, with a focus on Glacier National Park. PEOPLE BEFORE THE PARK is due out in 2014.
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This is fascinating to learn. I'm blown away just the concept of having a organized sign language to make interactions between different nations/tribes less difficult
What a blessing. Thank you.
8 yrs ago and still informative, interesting and enlightening!
Sign language is a very beautiful way of communicating. Thanks for sharing..🔥
There are many people and many languages
That Rob Collier has a fantastic voice. I could listen to him all day.
Terrific program, thank you for sharing!
I substitute, and as the class is studying particular tribes of Native Americans, I asked a thinking question ... which was to name different ways they communicated. Once I got home, I looked and ran across this informative video! I never knew sign language or hand talk was used. This was so interesting, I plan to share it next time I see them. ,,😊🤔😊
This is so well done! Great work!!!
Awesome work. It is sad to think that at some point this knowledge could be lost, this would be very sad.
Amazing!
I do a winter count since about more than 30 years for myself. It helps me to remember things. For the last year i depicted 3 syringes for the covid vaccinacions i got.
Love this! I'm working on a Tsinuk / Chinuk / Chinook wawa and PISL lexicon. Thank you so much for sharing this.
@skeingamepodcast5993
3 жыл бұрын
I'm studying CW too! Would love to see your work when it's done. Are you on the Chinook Jargon Discord and/or Reddit?
@feralmettle1504
3 жыл бұрын
@@skeingamepodcast5993 no, not subbed to either - I'll havta checkem out
A lot of Native ppl had a sign language. Even some tribes in South West, Mexico and South America. My grandparents both used jesters at times, not often but we knew what they ment. Also the whistle language was used by the Natives.
The USA has no official language. Canada has at least two. I have a half dozen that I am good at, and a few more that I know a little of, here in Europe
@mgmassey174
2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, America is a place that eradicated other cultures, not respect them Heard about the Residential schools? In an insular, colonial culture, assimilation was the goal. Now, white people get mad at people if they speak their language. I don't even know mine because my ancestors were beaten if they spoke it Those are facts. Wabanaki People of the Dawn channel
It was the rule..... BEFORE GENOCIDE!!!
I'm so intrigued I am coda both my parents were born deaf so I speak American Sign language however, there was a lot of similarity in the way they signed as well common Sense can you kind of tell you that! I knew that natives used sign language however, I didn't think twice about it until tonight...and I am so over the moon!
@isabelsmith3775
3 ай бұрын
i believe native american sign language had some influence on asl but dont quote me on that
@winros
3 ай бұрын
@isabelsmith3775 Yes, it did!
So you mean the first sign language
Napé uŋ wóglaka👍 (to speak by using hands) Question: in the Ikče iyapi (Indigenous languages) I've learned about the word order is so-called backwards compared to Wašičuiyapi (English) ex. Thípi čík'ala. = Little house. Mni kȟáta. = Hot water. So does anyone know if ikče wíyutȟapi ( Indigenous sign language) follows the same rule, or would it change with the speaker's language rules? I ask because I've seen videos where they were signing using English word order. Philámayaye.
@laszlovitje4391
10 ай бұрын
Using English word order is not pure PISL (Plains Indian Sign Language), but PISL-English (English with PISL signs). PISL has its own word order which is independent from any native spoken language. Generally: When + who + verb + object + adjective; or verb + adverb. Emphasis can change this, because emphatic word comes forward. In instances when the meaning is not affected, word order of the signer's spoken mother-language can prevail.
I am a Serbian,living in Vietnam and I will continue to carry love for native americans where ever i go around the world. There is so much in their culture,only if U.S. managed to embrace it,it would make them culturally speaking richer in every sense.But no...they decided to liberate themselves from Brits and build their house on bloody foundations. Everybody reaps what they sew.
@Debeljaca2011
3 жыл бұрын
Zena ti cista ili mesano sa Americkom kulturom?
Facial expression are the same for all Happy Sad Fear Anger Surprise Disgust
I have a winter count. Every year around new year i draw a new sign for the year just passed. For 2020 it`s a circle (earth) with five people around wich cough (Covid)
what about the Indians of the East? as far as history its like they never existed.
@redhouse1002
3 жыл бұрын
Sign language not really used among the Ind. nations in the east, not like it was on the Plains. More people were multi-lingual.
@terriejohnston8801
3 жыл бұрын
Are you referring to the Cherokee, + dozens of tribes from Pa.NY Delaware all around our Great Lakes??? Time to do ur homework..
@wagonburner509
2 жыл бұрын
They all got wiped out the eastern people came to the west dip shit that's where the white people started off at
I speak Denesuline...Cree....
Bingeing through twinrabbit's content primed my algorithm well
Anyone know the Huron or Wendat hand signs?
Estou.falando.do.Cacique chefe Takaiake q viveu.na.CALifornia. Chayenne Pele.vermelha.
i love so-called Indian sign language- fascinating!
@redhouse1002
3 жыл бұрын
Why do you say "so-called?" Do you doubt it?
India sign language
You have home signs...
I'm curious since they did not have a language and did not speak a language and they were not Deaf just curious how their voices sounded...
Yeah, I could speak Shoshone, Ute, Bannock, English and Spanish
@vincentrouardconteur5919
4 жыл бұрын
Hello, do you practice Plains Indian Sign LAnguage?
@GottliebGoltz
4 жыл бұрын
And cuss up a storm???
@ariesfriesen1646
4 жыл бұрын
@@GottliebGoltz we don't have profane words in our languages
i just like a human to touch my back and i steal their toxic metal haha
my right eyelid had a strange lump in it about two weeks ago. i never saw it before and didn’t squeeze it. i just felt and saw a strange bump in the mirror. i drank beer and water and cried out my nose until the SKIN INFECTION IS REMOVED. OSMOSIS
Us so called black people do this all the time, especially with each other
never saw a gay indian, only one I ever seen in my life. huuuh. interesting. enjoyed the video.
@winros
2 жыл бұрын
Come to think of it nor have I!
Voces.nao.sabem.nada.ele.sim.sabe porque.viveu.la.a.morte nao.existe.
X is the sign of the Son of Man. He is coming soon, as soon as The One God, The Creator sends Him. At His second coming: Parousia ! His sign in the clouds will be seen by all peoples on the earth.Look up! The time draws near. Can anyone translate this message into Universal sign language to get all peoples ready?
Humans have used hundreds of ways to communicate without writing for ever and still do. With whistles, clicks, clothing, reflections, drawings, hair, structures, things they carried with them like a weapon, totem poles, stone carvings, mounds, face paint or tatoos, sign language, knots, claps, chomping teeth, blinking, hand gestures and sign language ( sign language itself has h7ndreds of different forms around the world just like the many different spoken languages), animals (pigeons, dogs, rats, pigs , almost every ani.al has been used to communicate long distance, or in war, or to communicate wi5h their Gods, smiles or frowns don't mean the same everywhere, feet stomping, and so many many many more like pins or stars on a Military uniform and the uniform itself, white lab coat, tubans and thousands of other head wear, smoke, banging sticks together, or a message stick, spinning a bullroarer instrument, and all instruments, body movements and everything else including smells
They are not Indians they are natives
@redhouse1002
3 жыл бұрын
Wrong. Who told you that, a non-Indian?
@orlandomorris6628
3 жыл бұрын
Yup they called us indians the indian REMOVAL act WALTER PLECKER DID THAT PAPER GENOCIDE THE ACTUAL NAME IS INDIGENOUS NATIVE S BECAUSE IT WASNT CALLED AMERICAS YET
@redhouse1002
3 жыл бұрын
@@orlandomorris6628 Just say Indian (NDN) like everybody else does! LOL.
@dollylyon8438
2 жыл бұрын
We the Ojibwa speak our language. The Cree speak theirs as well. We are NOT from India.
women should be in charge of sugar and chocolate access at all times!
The people used sign language to speak to other tribes that spoke differently. More importantly though they used sign language when they didn't want the wetiko to know what they were saying.
btw.. they were not Indians - Indians live in India. They were the indigenous original humans of the two new continents called the New World, by savage europeans, carrying Guns, Germs and Steel. So many of these sketches show the Natives On Horses, when there were ZERO HORSES in North and South America before the arrival of the Europeans.
🤔🤨💬 " Tatanka Oyate Pilamaya " 🤠 Yup❕🪶 G~G. ✏ 🗳 ☑ 🇺🇸.