COMPILED & REVIEWED BY CLAUDIA A. FOX TREE, M.Ed (Arawak). Here are resources I recommend in courses I teach about Native Americans - like book lists, websites, video clips, music/songs, curriculum ideas, and other thoughts thrown in for explanation… Mostly, this blog is a place to present truths and perspectives about the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere (with particular focus on the Caribbean) not easily found in other places.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013
Native American Sign Language
Here is a link to my brother's research on sign language: http://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/fox-tree-gives-two-papers-at-linguistics-conference-in-boston
One major piece of knowledge is that the world has more than one sign language, another is that sign language that originated in the Americas (pre ASL) is older than folks think, and those original sign languages don't have words for colors, not even black and white.