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Sign language was developed throughout North, Central and South America and was not invented by any single tribe. Most native sign language (like that used in the eastern woodlands) was never recorded by early explorers and is lost to history. The signs used on the Great Plains of North America were much better documented by explorers, the US Military, missionaries and others.
One of the first books published on the subject in the USA was written by Major Stephen H Long in 1823, giving around 100 signs. Lt-Colonel Garrick Mallory published two books in 1880 and 1881 for the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institute. Other books on Plains sign language were produced by Captain William Philo Clark, the missionary Lewis F Hadley and William Tomkins.
Because no such books were ever written on sign language in other parts of the Americas, the result is that most people are ignorant of its existence.
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