Minuteman Report Ep. 144 - The Nearly Lost Art of Hand Talk

Have you ever heard of Plains Indian Sign Language? The basis of ASL has a long and fascinating, indigenous history. There is new TRUTH BE TOLD content three times each week: tune into the MINUTEMAN REPORT, hosted by Robert Hensley, live on Mondays at 3P PT/6P ET, check out TRUTH BE TOLD TRANSFORMATION hosted by Bonnie Burkert, live on Wednesdays at 3P PT/6P ET, and join Tony Sweet with the original TRUTH BE TOLD on Fridays Live at 3P PT/6P ET! Learn more about TRUTH BE TOLD online at www.truthbetoldparanormal.com Be sure click on our SHOP page to get official TRUTH BE TOLD merchandise! Follow Tony on TikTok @theparanormalclub www.clubparanormal.com

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
From Ananda's closed location somewhere in North America. This is
your weekly Truth be Told Midiman report. Hey everyone, it's
Robert Hensley, your Truth be Told minimn. And today I
want to talk about sign language. Not American Sign language,
which is what is primarily used to hear in the
US and Canada. But I want to talk about planes

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Indian sign language. Ever heard of it? Probably not Plains.
Indian sign language is one of the oldest languages in
North America. It is a form of sign language that
was practiced by indigenous tribes. There are various tribes around
the on the continent that practiced some form of sign

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language going back thousands of years. There are records dating
back to the fifteen hundreds where a Spanish colonizer comes
to the southwestern United States and encounters indigenous people and

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they didn't need an interpreter because the indigenous people understood
the signs that the Spanish people were making, right the
hand signs. So this was a really rich language, and
in fact, it is what American Sign language is based upon.
And yet it's a language that was lost, you know,

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as part of the US government forcing children into residential
schools where they had to cut their hair, and they
weren't allowed to speak their languages, and they weren't allowed
to practice rituals. This was one of the things that
very easily could have been lost. I think the reason
that handtok survived in small pockets is because those indigenous

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people who deaf and who had this as their only
form of communication with their families. And what is even
more exciting about learning about planes Indian sign language is
that when we look back even further than the fifteen hundreds,
we start to see pictographs right writing on rocks, Pictures

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on rocks where you can literally see a symbol on
the rock and see how that translates into a symbol
created with your hand and arm, and how this communication
or this form of communication evolved. It's really beautiful to

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think about the manner in which people were able to
community or found ways of communicating with each other. Sad
that it was almost lost, but brilliant in the fact

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that people are still able to learn about it now.
So if you are studying asl or if you are
just interested in sign language in general or American history,
this is something that you might want to look into.
Planes in mean sign language or hand Talk. Remember, if

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thanks for listening, and until next time, stay true