While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
This inquiry is closely connected with the
last. If the system of signs was invented here in the
correct sense of that term, and by a known and existing
tribe, it is probable that it would not be found prevailing
in any important degree where the influence of the inventors
could not readily have penetrated. An affirmative answer to
the question also presupposes the same answer to another
question, viz, whether there is any one uniform system among
the North American Indians which can therefore be compared
with any other system. This last inquiry will be considered
in its order. In comparing the system as a whole with
others, the latter are naturally divided into signs of
speaking men foreign to America and those of deaf-mutes.
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Sign Language
Among North American Indians Compared with
that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes,
1881
