The Lord's Prayer in what is now known as Plains Indian Sign Language or Plains Sign Talk — a sign language that operated as a lingua franca between tribes across N. America. From Lewis Francis Hadley's Indian Sign Talk (1893). More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/indian-sign-talk
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@publicdomainrev @0xabad1dea Ok, I can't figure out what "prayer" is because it looks
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Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.
@publicdomainrev Wow, that this exists is so grotesque, considering what Americans did on the angelicization and forced cultural oppression, etc, to the Indian nations and peoples. The article talks about it a little bit, but I'm just struck by the benign appearance of something that represents so much oppression.