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Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
Map of the various sign languages spoken across Turtle Island, excluding Francosign languages. Plains Sign Language is labelled in red as Hand Talk
Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common to the majority of Indigenous nations of North America, notably those of the Great Plains, Northeast Woodlands, and the Great Basin. It was, and continues to be, used across what is now central Canada, the central and western United States and northern Mexico. This language was used historically as a lingua franca, notably for international relations, trade, and diplomacy; it is still used for story-telling, oratory, various ceremonies, and by deaf people for ordinary daily use.
In 1885, it was estimated that there were over 110,000 "sign-talking Indians", including Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and Arapaho. As a result of the European colonization of the Americas, most notably including American boarding and Canadian residential schools, the number of sign talkers has declined sharply. However, growing interest and preservation work on the language has increased its use and visibility in the 21st century. Historically, some have likened its more formal register, used by men, to Church Latin in function. It is primarily used today by Elders and Deaf citizens of Indigenous nations.
History
Hand Talk's history is intimately associated with both ancient and recent petroglyphs of the continent, however, little is known to academia about Plains Sign Talk's historical antecedents. The earliest records of contact between Europeans and Indigenous peoples of the Gulf Coast region in what is now Texas and northern Mexico note a fully-formed sign language already in use by the time of the Europeans' arrival there. These records include the accounts of Cabeza de Vaca in 1527 and Coronado in 1541.
Signing may have started in the south of North America, perhaps in northern Mexico or Texas, and only spread into the Plains in recent times, though this suspicion may be an artifact of European observation. It is known that there is a complex of Maya sign languages called Meemul Chʼaabʼal or Meemul Tziij in the Kʼicheʼ language, but it is unknown to what extent Meemul Tziij has affected Hand Talk.
The Northwest is home to Plateau Sign Language, which is either a single language or a family of sign languages spoken by the local nations. It is also unknown how associated Plateau Sign Language is with Hand Talk, but it is probable that they are related. Although it is still spoken, especially by the Ktunaxa, the Plateau nations historically shifted to using Chinook Jargon instead
In recent years, the Oneida Nation has taken steps to revive their sign language. Historically, the nations of the Northeast Woodlands, like the Haudenosaunee, spoke a variant of Hand Talk. The Oneida Sign Language Project officially began in 2016, and more signs are being added to this day.
Geography
Sign language use has been documented across speakers of at least 37 spoken languages in twelve families, spread across an area of over 2.6 million square kilometres (1 million square miles). In recent history, it was highly developed among the Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa, among others, and remains strong among the Crow, Cheyenne and Arapaho.
Melanie R. McKay-Cody, a Cherokee Deaf woman and Hand Talk speaker/researcher, motions that "Plains" Sign Language is actually a family of inter-related languages extending beyond the Great Plains. She breaks down the regional languages as: Northeast Hand Talk (including Oneida Sign Language), Plains Sign Language, Great Basin Sign Language (spoken, for example, by the Ute), and Southwest Hand Talk. She also notes a West Coast language spoken by the Chumash, and she advances the idea that Inuit Sign Language has some relation to this complex of manual North American Indigenous languages. Unmentioned is Coast Salish Sign Language. Within each of these languages, she explains that nations will themselves have specific dialects, such as the Blackfoot.
Southwest Hand Talk is spoken by the Navajo, Hopi, Apache, and Pueblo peoples. However, amongst the Navajo and Keres people, there are two unrelated sign languages also spoken: Keresan Sign Language and, by a Navajo clan with a large number of deaf members, Navajo Family Sign. Likewise, Plateau Sign Language may or may not be related to Hand Talk.
The hidden history of “Hand Talk”
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Apparently shit was popping off in Los Angeles today. ICE was doing raids all over the city. I've seen some clips. There were flash bangs, someone almost run over by a car. I know they did stuff in Chicago and Denver before. They just attacking one city at a time to do this stuff?
It's awful but it also seems to be causing quite the backlash. Hope it at least radicalize some people to join an organization.
Probably not a super common opinion I imagine, but I wish developers (or producers more likely) would respect the settings of their own games a little more. All these immersion-annihilating crossovers, memes and references are feeling extremely played out.
I understand "indie studios" (AKA teams of 30+ people with the resources of enormous corporate publishers) eagerly welcome crossovers for the sake of growing their brand, but as a player it thoroughly dilutes my interest to see a bunch of clashing aesthetics overlap.
My uncle had this wolf photo on his wall when I was a kid
Many people are saying this
Apparently its wrong to attack the leader of a mafia that extorts medication for the sick and disabled, and the supporters of a genocidal regime. Guess I took the wrong message from those superhero movies this country financed.
I'm make sure to periodically shake my head when watching John Q. to let people know I don't approve of Denzel's character's actions in the film.
storm's a brewin'
it is june 6 and stalin saved the world from fascism
There is no order to the stages of grief
I like to start off with acceptance. Get it out of the way so there's more time for anger.
Wrong. There is my order!
"roman" is a very interesting visual design theme, tbh. there's like 2-3 actual elements and then just vibes that go with them, and all of these are shared with any other hellenistic vibe.
it'd be fun to take nondescript hellenistic scenes and change the palette and ask if people think theyre greek or roman honestly. red is kinda coded roman, or spartan
Between walking my dog every day and now going to the gym 5-6 times a week, nobody can tell me I live a sedentary lifestyle anymore. 
There's that bit in Always Sunny where someone is like "I feel like when I'm winning at that game, I'm winning at life." Nightreign gives me the opposite feeling. I had time for one game and I fucked up on the first night, only level 2. I felt like a failure and less valuable as a human being. Meanwhile everyone else seems to be at the endgame.
Fuck this.
The Hooters discussion today reminded me of this little gem. Maybe not worksafe, but not for the reasons you'd think. Just some next level irony and dark humor.
I REALLY need to grow weed because the cost to buy it is so exorbitant but it is so very necessary to my quality of life
I think i fucked up though, this seedling just never did anything. It sprouted and then never grew further and now 2 weeks later it's turning yellow, still no primary leaf development
Was it just a dud or did i fuck up leaving it outside? I figured the last one i fucked up by not acclimating it properly (wind force twisted and killed it i guess, friction with the pot wore through the stem or something) so i left this one outside as soon as it sprouted. But it just never DID anything, just sitting there with its cotyledons
Cool cool, cool.
im in a hole of despair, it's corrosive living in a society that is attacking children's entertainers for saying we shouldn't hurt kids
I fucking hate it here
Elon saying “Trump wouldn’t have won without me” has been interpreted by the libs to mean he’s admitted to rigging the election.
My cat still hasn't peed
He has been very lethargic all day. I am not sure if it's the muscle relaxants or if he is in pain/obstructed again.
If I take him back to ER they will want to admit him and I can't pay 5k. When I tell them that they will kill him.
All I can do is pump him full of fluids and hope that he pees. Come on buddy please pee
Ok he is in his litter box. He is having a very hard time.
I'm sure he is scared and in pain from the catheter. Come on pal you can do it
Oh my God he peed
He had a REALLY hard time. And it was a tiny amount. But he peed.
Very much not out of the woods but a massively positive sign. If he pulls through this I'm getting his ass pet insurance
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I almost want to chuckle at these moderate Herzlians sloooowly realizing that the war on Gaza is not only a waste of time but a horrible atrocity.
the longer this has gone on, the worse and less defensible everything has gotten.
A pro-pally will accuse Israel of genocide now. I'll ask why they think that. Then they'll pull up an interview of a Likkud member saying that "palestinian babies are enemies", and then another of IDF soldiers making light of flattening a neighborhood, and like... I can't make a rebuttal to that because, yeah, it is genuinely fucking heinous. Then I see more reports of more civilians dead, and more reporters killed. And now they are threatening a flotilla bringing in humanitarian supplies?
The time to be outraged is far past due now, buckos. There were plenty of hints yesteryear and the year before that one that this was going to be an extermination campaign, but you preferred to bury your heads in the sand and deploy the usual Herzlian talking points (e.g. ‘Hamas uses human shields’).
If you still aren’t going to reexamine either Zionism or the alternatives thereto then I am just going to laugh when I see you infighting.
Back in the day when I used to post on reddit on places like /r/Catholicism (horrible tradcath subreddit, I think there's an even more reactionary offshoot) one of the things that made me leave entirely was a conversation I had with someone who I mistakenly assumed to be engaging in good faith, under a post of a Francoist nun protesting divorce. I was essentially arguing that, regardless of our religious position on divorce and marriage, if it's necessary for the secular state to adopt fascism to keep divorce illegal, that definitely means the state should allow divorce to be legal (yes, this is a very weak argument. I was a lib). They replied that I was wrong about Franco and that the natural conclusion to real™️ Catholic faith was to support fascism (not even exaggerating, this was on the main Catholic subreddit 
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That moment made me leave Reddit entirely pretty quick. Sometimes, if you're in a community like this, there's a lot of cultural and emotional baggage that keeps you in there, like an abusive relationship, but a conversation with an emotionally unintelligent hardliner who doesn't know how to use the usual reactionary rhetorical tricks to hide how ghoulish they are will wake you up and make you realize the spell you were under.
The tragic part is that this is obviously happening way too late for Zionists, as you said. The ones with any shred of decency should've waken up years ago.
Heartbreaking—dialectical materialist arbitrary applies negation of the negation, upholds vulgar dyad
5 years since I had a friend group. It's like Thandos snappled them all!
I'm friends with podcast hosts, they never seem to hear my comments when we get together but we have a great time
Dog sitting at my parents' instead of being able to do Pride stuff. If I had queer friends they might wonder where I am.
An algorithm that detects when you're arguing with someone online and sends you a notification when someone likes their comment