Hand talk: Sign language among American Indian nations

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Hand talk provides an in-depth look at the sign language used by the North American Indians of the Great Plains. Davis hypothesizes that this high level of contact most likely resulted in a pidgin sign language that eventually became a creole as deaf individuals learned it as their native language. [...]Ch. 9 contextualizes PISL in relation to other communication systems based in the manual modality such as home sign and primary signed languages.