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Indian Sign Language and General Scott’s Peacemaking Work
The article details General Hugh L. Scott’s mastery of Indian sign language since 1876 and his role in diplomacy with tribes such as the Nez Perces and Red Cloud. It explains how sign language aided understanding, its origins, how various signs convey concrete ideas, and Scott’s nickname Nole-Te-Qu-Op for “The Man Who Talks With His Hands.”
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Congress
Representative Leavitt
Montana
Indian Affairs Committee
House
Leavitt
Hugh L. Scott
West Point
Jim Baker
Bureau of American Ethnology
Upper
Missouri
Texas
General Scott
Century Company
Joseph
Nez Perces
Bismarck
N. D
Bear Paws Mountains
Old Fort Union
Big Wolf
Scott
Ninth Cavalry
The
Little Big Horn
I-See-O
Leutenant
Red Cloud
White Clay Creek
Iiven
Indiana
James Mooney
Handbook of American Indians
Canada