Cree hand signals homepage

[Nobukatsu Minoura]

Dear Dave,

This URL works better:

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cree/cree/1.htm

I currently work on Japanese Sign Laguage.  (And I also study ASL in a
classroom setting.)  Do you happen to know if this "Cree Sign Language" is:

1. a systematic sign language used by hearing Crees,
2. signs used along with spoken Cree, or
3. the sign language of deaf Crees?

And do you happen to know its relationship to Plains Sign Language?

A colleague of mine remarked that most of these Cree signs are identical
with ASL signs.  Can it be because of iconicity of sign languages?  Or are
there other reasons?

Probably I should ask these questions not to you but to the people involved
in the project.  Anyway, thank you for letting me know of this website.

Best,

Nobukatsu Minoura
Linguistics
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
minoura at tufs.ac.jp
nobum at gol.com



on 02.4.23 2:54 PM, David D. Robertson at ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU wrote:

> I hope this weird-looking link works for you!  An extensive collection of
> video frame sequences demonstrating Cree hand signals (sign language).
> Good material, maybe useful in other Native sign language research.  There
> are plenty of hand signals for post-contact phenomena, for what it's
> worth.  --  Dave
>
> http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/abdt/interface/interface2.nsf/LaunchFrameS
> et?
> OpenAgent&RefDoc=11.html&URL=http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cree/cree/1.htm&alt
> lang=http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cree/cree/fabstract.html&disp=e&end
>