Hidatsa Language and 100+ phrases with Plains Sign Language by Lanny Real Bird

This is a Hidatsa vocabulary instructional video presented with the Plains Indian Sign language and English captions available at the Whirlwind Gift Shop in New Town, North Dakota. Dr. Lanny Real Bird created and designed this production 1st in Crow, then in Hidatsa. There were preliminary versions created in 2004 with less entries. Originally, this productions was re-created in 2007, there are @380 entries on DVD. Other versions are available in Dakota, Nakona, Mandan, and Crow. The narrator is Randy Phelan. There are other teaching materials available such as flashcards and the original 2006 handbook. There is also a Mandan audios and a video available.

[@emilianozapata2530]

Thank you for posting this,it's such a treasure to see something like this.
I am a Serbian living in Vietnam(country in eastern Europe) but I carry my love for native ametican people where ever I go on my roads.
Sending you blessings,and I hope that legacy of your people will endure,and prevail in upcoming years!

[@JLa_802]

I think it’s so interesting how intuitive the signs are. I came to this video after watching a video about PISL to learn more. What is interesting in more of a sad way is how you can see where the insensitive stereotypes of Native Americans portrayed in media came from. Colonizers would have had a poor or no understanding of the hand language and only understood the spoken english which if used supplementary to hand signs sounds broken or out of order. In reality this just shows that when colonizers encountered Native Americans, the Native Americans were probably signing in order to communicate more effectively seeing how PISL was basically a universal language. They supplemented that non-verbal language with english they may have learned through other encounters in order to aid in it’s understanding. Because of a lack of knowledge bred by “manifest destiny” and pure selfishness, very few colonizers took the time to actually learn to see what was being said. Then of course all the evil tragedies happened and the language spread dimmed with its systematic destruction. It really is a beautiful way of communicating and I’m so glad to see there are people interested in it.

[@emilymccarthy1]

My god mother was Mandan and Hidatsa. I remember asking her different words. So this is pretty special to have a video such as. ❤️

[@EmmahPaige]

Sign review time stamps
4:43
Yes,no,good,bad,come,go,understand,don’t know,sit,stand
7:08
Here,this,that,there,why,what,where,when,who,how
9:45
Which,how,many,look,listen,woman,man,open,close,you,me
12:34
Day,night,on,below,give,take/get,before,behind,hold,break
15:25
Speak,with,laugh,stop,pull,push,liar,separate,father,mother
18:21
Walk,run,big,small,Indians,white person, hot,cold,thin,thick
22:06
CrowIndian ,teepee,at,across,afraid,all,among,go to,around,buy
26:04
Cut,dance,book/paper,ready,drink,hungry,full,eat,fire,friend(men),friend(woman),morning
29:49
Noon,evening,sleep,work,I am tired,hard,horse,long,make,meet
33:13
Holy,like,throw,catch,hit,kicked,keep it,in front,in the back of,own

[@maoritrustee-io3hw]

A few months back I was watching and reading on this, 👍💯 a old government movie on the old sign language speakers of many nations in early 1900s black and white documentry

[@oldarpanet]

Thank you for posting this! Great resource.

[@HabeasJ]

Its amazing how many of these hand signs are still used in some form by average people today. The gesture for good, go, come, here, this, that, there, and many others are still pretty universal. Then a check mark for acknowledgment. Maybe not a gesture we use but definitely something written down everyday

[@cactusshadow9840]

thanks and respect for honouring this language!

[@jtopau6839]

Lol the kiowa no is "haw nay" thats so cool

[@gruberjens4354]

Thanks for the video. Since I learned about the sign language, I wanted to learn more about it and become at least able to learn the basics. Your video is a awsome resource for achieving this :-)

[@captainfanta8641]

Thank you very much, very interesting.

[@Pearalt9094]

I've been trying to learn Plain Sign and am wondering if you have any insight as to why you question is at the end of the phrase? Is it dialectical or not of importance? The literary source (Universal Indian Sign Language by William Tomkins) I've been using puts the question sign at the beginning of the phrase for instance. I suppose I'm confused on sentence structure Thank you for making this resource!

[@lannyrealbird9015]

Contact me at [e-mail]

[@iolipuara3979]

funny that "me" in English = "me" in Hidatsa! Probably just a coincidence though, right?

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa790]

This is either badly edited or you're trying to get people to remember the signs you told them earlier. I can't really figure out some of the signs, it's like some of them are homonyms. Where and who are the same, for example. Putting the hand signs in very different places of the body is also different from ASL, and it's hard for me to know how many areas of my body I can place the hand sign in and the word still be the same. Maybe that was intentional, maybe that's just how PISL is.

[@kingsgambit]

I believe at "where" he was tipping down with the index finger multiple times, whereas at "who" he was like drawing a straight horizontal line with the index finger. Observe closely.

[@jodycain2959]

I wish the Hidatsa words were spelt out in this video along with English. Otherwise beautiful.

[@lannyrealbird9015]

Handouts available. [e-mail]

[@jonathanvilario5402]

Where can I buy the dvd?

[@lannyrealbird9015]

Whirlwind Trading Post in New Town, ND call Dominick Silletti [phone]
Badlands Plaza, 221 Main St Suite 104, New Town, ND 58763
Illustrated handbook available

[@lannyrealbird9015]

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