mathias | May 10, 2011

The Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States (SAIVUS) is associated with VizLingo, a social-media company above Tumblr., which is creating the world’s first global visual language. Essentially, the program they’re inventing garnishes text with video clips, allowing word definitions (and entire worldviews) to be seen in conjunction with how they are written [...]

Category: Cherokee, Dakota (Santee Sioux, Yankton Sioux), Hawaiian, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Native Language Events, Plains Indian Sign Language | No Comments »
Tags: anthropological linguistics, Cherokee, Dakota, dialectology, documentation, Hawaiian, Lakota, language, linguistics, pedagogy, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, revitalization, SAIVUS, semiotics, Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States, sociolinguistics, technology, Tumblr., visual language, VizLingo

mathias | March 24, 2011

Reportedly, in addition to having Plains Indian Sign Language, various signals like smoke signals, mirror signals, drum beat codes, fire arrows, and so forth Plains Indians were very good at reading animal body language, particularly that of horses, which ties into differences in their treatment of horses than Western treatment. Take the workshop on this [...]

Category: Horse Language, Native Codes, Native Language Events | No Comments »
Tags: Artist in Business Leadership, Cultural Capital, First Peoples Fund, Frank Hopkins, Hidalgo, horse language, Lakota, Lame Deer, Lynette Two Bulls, medicine wheel, Medicine Wheel Model, Northern Cheyenne, Oglala, Phillip Whiteman Jr., PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, Rapid City, Yellow Bird

mathias | January 25, 2011

According to Screen Junkies.com, The 10 Best American Indian Movies of All Time are “Dances with Wolves” (1990), “Last of the Mohicans” (1992), “Little Big Man” (1970), “Fort Apache” (1948), “Nanook of the North” (1922), “The New World” (2005), “The Fast Runner” a.k.a. “Atanarjuat” (2001), “Smoke Signals” (1998), “Apache” (1954), an “Apocalypto” (2006). Half of [...]

Category: Algonquin, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Crow, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Mayan, Mohawk, Navajo (Diné), Pawnee, Plains Indian Sign Language | No Comments »
Tags: Algonquin, Algonquin language, Apache (1954), Apocalypto (2006), Atanarjuat (2001), Cherokee, Cherokee language, Cheyenne, Cheyenne language, Dances with Wolves (1990), Fort Apache (1948), Into the West (2005), Inuktitut, Inuktitut language, Inupiaq, Inupiaq language, Lakota, Lakota language, Last of the Mohicans (1992), Little Big Man (1970), Mayan, Mayan language, Mohawk, Mohawk language, movies, Nanook of the North (1922), Navajo, Navajo language, Pawnee, Pawnee language, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, Rapa Nui (1994), Sikumi (2008), Skins (2002), Smoke Signals (1998), The Fast Runner (2001), The New World (2005), Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (2006), Windtalkers (2002), Windwalker (1981)

mathias | January 20, 2011

Our previous post was about people using Plains Indian Sign Language after learning it from books and videos. At least one of these signers, Ron Garitson, was considered fluent by modern native Cheyenne PISL signers at the 2010 Plains Indian Sign Language Conference. Ron had practiced his PISL with modern native Crow signers, native Assiniboine [...]

Category: Osage, Plains Indian Sign Language, Quapaw | 1 Comment »
Tags: Conference, mistranslation, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, Quapaw, Quapaw Sign Language, Ron Garitson, Sign Language, Ted Stillwell

mathias | January 18, 2011

Plains Indian Sign Language (also called Hand Talk), is a signed language that was used by all Natives of the Plains and adjacent regions. Although it is still maintained in modern communities; mostly by the Deaf, in just 100 years or so, dialectology has resulted in major decline of mutual intelligibility (90% to 66% or [...]

Category: Plains Indian Sign Language | 2 Comments »
Tags: Hand Talk, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language