Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...

The recorded history of sign language in Western societies starts in the 17th century, as a visual language or method of communication, although references...

spoken languages. A sign language arose among tribes of American Indians in the Great Plains region of North America (see Plains Indian Sign Language) before...

case with Caucasian Sign Language but not Plains Indian Sign Language, which did not involve speech taboo, or deaf sign languages, which are not encodings...

the Columbian Plateau. The Crow Nation introduced Plains Sign Talk, which replaced Plateau Sign Language among the eastern nations that used it (the Coeur...

sign for the number 9 becomes the number 19. In Plains Indian Sign Language, the gesture signifies the number 3 when held a bit lower than the signs used...

Pueblo, New Mexico). Keresan Sign Language developed locally, and is unrelated to the trade language Plains Indian Sign Language. Kelley, Walter & Tony McGregor...

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan group who live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically...

used by Plains Tribes to refer to the Shoshone. They called the Shoshone "snake" referring to the Shoshone sign in Plains Indian Sign Language for the...

cultural area (Algonquian and Iroquoian languages) Plains cultural area (Algonquian, Plains Sign, and Siouan languages) Northwest Plateau cultural area (Ktunaxa...