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Sign Language and the Plains Indians in a Nation’s Defense
The article profiles Mole Tequop and Lt. Gen. Hugh Lenox Scott, detailing how Plains Indian Sign Language bridged relations between Custer era scouts and Kiowa I See O and other tribes. It recounts Scott’s diplomacy, military leadership from 1876 to WWI, and Tequop’s role in numbing conflicts, while highlighting mounts of buffalo and bighorn signs and the growth of the language.
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