Major General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853 – 1934) was a United States Army officer. About 1889 Scott made the acquaintance of an Indian scout name I-See-O (Plenty Fires) of the Kiowa tribe, who taught Scott Native American sign language. In November 1897, he was attached to the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, where he began preparing a work on Indian sign languages. He organized the Native American Sign Language Conference in 1930 at Fort Browning, Montana, the videos of which are already available for viewing and study. Later, he began work on the Dictionary of Sign Language, which was recorded on film, which was a new approach in the study and preservation of this cultural phenomenon. Unfortunately, General Scott was unable to complete this work. It was continued by Richard Sanderville, who began this work with the general.
Today we have a beautifully digitized copy of Scott's Dictionary.

свернуть