HANNAH WEINER
SIGN LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Published in Assembling, Richard Kostelanetz & Henry Korn eds., Brooklyn 1970.


SIGN LANGUAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

BROTHER.  Touch first and second fingers of right
          hand to lips.  Then make sign for MAN.




Breathed from the Great Spirit,









MAN.  Hold up right index finger in front of face.






one, an example, I,











FOND  (meaning:  pressed to the heart).  Cross wrists, in

      front and above the heart, right near body.  Press.
 



cross my heart,












LOVE.  Make the sign for FOND, press harder.






love you.







                     Hannah Weiner
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