indian Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/indian/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png indian Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/indian/ 32 32 Dying Hawaiian Sign Language is Preserved by Few https://deafniche.com/dying-hawaiian-sign-language-preserved/ Sat, 19 Mar 2016 06:17:15 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=8966 Hawai’i’s Sign Language is dying as ASL takes over For captions, turn on the captions feature on the video. Hawaii has a slowly diminishing Deaf population that still uses Sign Language that is different from ASL. Only the seniors using it are few now. None of the younger generations are learning it along with ASL, […]

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]]> Native Americans and Sign Language https://deafniche.com/did-you-know-native-american/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:34:46 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=8841 Native Americans needed it for communication back then! Originally the Native Americans developed sign language to use with other tribes because they each spoke a different language. The sign language system became very useful for communicating with the new European settlers. Communication was important for trading and survival, they developed a sign language that was […]

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