PLAINS INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE

Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) is a sign language formerly used as an interlanguage between Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States of America and Canada.

In 1885, it was estimated that there were over 110,000 “sign-talking Indians”, including Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux and Arapahoe.^[1] By the 1960s, there remained a “very small percentage of this number”.^[1] There are few PISL signers alive today.

References

1. ^ ^a b Tomkins, William: Indian sign language. [Republication of "Universal Indian Sign Language of the Plains Indians of North America" 5th ed. 1931]. New York : Dover Publications 1969. (p. 7)

External links

• "PISL"
• Ethnologue report for language code:psd
• "Indian" Sign Language Dictionary
• "Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes," First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552

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