"Talking Without Words in the Old West" (2009)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 เม.ย. 2014
  • 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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  • @gruberjens4354
    @gruberjens4354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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

  • @KamohoaliiKannon
    @KamohoaliiKannon 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What a blessing. Thank you.

  • @judemorales4U
    @judemorales4U ปีที่แล้ว +5

    8 yrs ago and still informative, interesting and enlightening!

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    There are many people and many languages

  • @Kris_Toffer
    @Kris_Toffer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That Rob Collier has a fantastic voice. I could listen to him all day.

  • @lauranicholls9421
    @lauranicholls9421 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sign language is a very beautiful way of communicating. Thanks for sharing..🔥

  • @zhenxinbei726
    @zhenxinbei726 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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. ,,😊🤔😊

  • @bennorton4831
    @bennorton4831 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is so well done! Great work!!!

  • @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams
    @Tine_of_Nice_Dreams หลายเดือนก่อน

    Terrific program, thank you for sharing!

  • @opalprestonshirley1700
    @opalprestonshirley1700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome work. It is sad to think that at some point this knowledge could be lost, this would be very sad.

  • @utej.k.bemsel4777
    @utej.k.bemsel4777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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.

  • @amberamour5395
    @amberamour5395 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing!

  • @feralmettle1504
    @feralmettle1504 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love this! I'm working on a Tsinuk / Chinuk / Chinook wawa and PISL lexicon. Thank you so much for sharing this.

    • @skeingamepodcast5993
      @skeingamepodcast5993 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @feralmettle1504 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@skeingamepodcast5993 no, not subbed to either - I'll havta checkem out

  • @NeutralZoneEnigmas
    @NeutralZoneEnigmas 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It was the rule..... BEFORE GENOCIDE!!!

  • @emilianozapata2530
    @emilianozapata2530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    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
      @Debeljaca2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zena ti cista ili mesano sa Americkom kulturom?

  • @apollohmiv42
    @apollohmiv42 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Facial expression are the same for all
    Happy
    Sad
    Fear
    Anger
    Surprise
    Disgust

  • @teresafernandez9849
    @teresafernandez9849 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @winros
    @winros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    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
      @isabelsmith3775 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i believe native american sign language had some influence on asl but dont quote me on that

    • @winros
      @winros 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @isabelsmith3775 Yes, it did!

  • @christopherellis2663
    @christopherellis2663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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
      @mgmassey174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

  • @tommygamba170
    @tommygamba170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So you mean the first sign language

  • @chetawitko7031
    @chetawitko7031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    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
      @laszlovitje4391 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @lilithmotherofmonsters6055
    @lilithmotherofmonsters6055 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bingeing through twinrabbit's content primed my algorithm well

  • @utej.k.bemsel3199
    @utej.k.bemsel3199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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)

  • @denepride2910
    @denepride2910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I speak Denesuline...Cree....

  • @2broketim479
    @2broketim479 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    what about the Indians of the East? as far as history its like they never existed.

    • @redhouse1002
      @redhouse1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      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
      @terriejohnston8801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you referring to the Cherokee, + dozens of tribes from Pa.NY Delaware all around our Great Lakes??? Time to do ur homework..

    • @wagonburner509
      @wagonburner509 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They all got wiped out the eastern people came to the west dip shit that's where the white people started off at

  • @donjohnston3767
    @donjohnston3767 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone know the Huron or Wendat hand signs?

  • @esperanzamarinelli2556
    @esperanzamarinelli2556 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    India sign language

  • @nelsoncorponelson
    @nelsoncorponelson ปีที่แล้ว

    Estou.falando.do.Cacique chefe Takaiake q viveu.na.CALifornia. Chayenne Pele.vermelha.

  • @winros
    @winros 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You have home signs...

  • @arynnehempstock1108
    @arynnehempstock1108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i love so-called Indian sign language- fascinating!

    • @redhouse1002
      @redhouse1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why do you say "so-called?" Do you doubt it?

  • @winros
    @winros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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...

  • @shoshonewarrior828
    @shoshonewarrior828 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yeah, I could speak Shoshone, Ute, Bannock, English and Spanish

    • @vincentrouardconteur5919
      @vincentrouardconteur5919 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello, do you practice Plains Indian Sign LAnguage?

    • @GottliebGoltz
      @GottliebGoltz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And cuss up a storm???

    • @ariesfriesen1646
      @ariesfriesen1646 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@GottliebGoltz we don't have profane words in our languages

  • @TRUEkcctv1384
    @TRUEkcctv1384 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Us so called black people do this all the time, especially with each other

  • @snoqualmiepatkanim
    @snoqualmiepatkanim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i just like a human to touch my back and i steal their toxic metal haha

  • @snoqualmiepatkanim
    @snoqualmiepatkanim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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

  • @ABerCul
    @ABerCul 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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

  • @nelsoncorponelson
    @nelsoncorponelson ปีที่แล้ว

    Voces.nao.sabem.nada.ele.sim.sabe porque.viveu.la.a.morte nao.existe.

  • @donjohnston3767
    @donjohnston3767 ปีที่แล้ว

    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?

  • @cjam3660
    @cjam3660 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    never saw a gay indian, only one I ever seen in my life. huuuh. interesting. enjoyed the video.

    • @winros
      @winros 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Come to think of it nor have I!

  • @PeggyJame
    @PeggyJame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    They are not Indians they are natives

    • @redhouse1002
      @redhouse1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrong. Who told you that, a non-Indian?

    • @orlandomorris6628
      @orlandomorris6628 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      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
      @redhouse1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@orlandomorris6628 Just say Indian (NDN) like everybody else does! LOL.

    • @dollylyon8438
      @dollylyon8438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We the Ojibwa speak our language. The Cree speak theirs as well. We are NOT from India.

  • @snoqualmiepatkanim
    @snoqualmiepatkanim 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    women should be in charge of sugar and chocolate access at all times!

  • @Memry-Man
    @Memry-Man ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @AudioPervert1
    @AudioPervert1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @TheSnoopindaweb
    @TheSnoopindaweb หลายเดือนก่อน

    🤔🤨💬 " Tatanka Oyate Pilamaya " 🤠 Yup❕🪶 G~G. ✏ 🗳 ☑ 🇺🇸.