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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> This prompts me to ask: I had always heard
that tribes used sign language when communicating with other tribes who spoke
different languages. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> But does this Lakhota example of using
sign language in "Dances With Wolves" even among themselves mean that they also
routinely used</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> sign language amongst themselves to
supplement their common spoken language? Just curious.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'v always heard that back in the day, some of
the older Osage men in my hometown of Pawhuska, OK, used to sit
around on parkbenches signing all day long with each other.
Supposedly it was hours of silence punctuated by occasional laughter. I
heard the same stories about the Grayhorse elders. Whenever they
came into Fairfax, they'd sign back and forth instead of talking. I
don't know how true this is, of course, but that's just what I've
heard.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Justin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>