American Sign Language has a long history in the United States. It goes back almost 200 years, to 1817, when a minister named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet brought Laurent Clerc, a teacher of the Deaf ...

One of the local newspapers did something about it a few years ago, and somebody from the College of the Menominee Nation once made some inquiries, but that’s all anybody could remember.

They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would have signed “phone” 100 years ago, when telephones looked like candlesticks.

American Sign Language has a long history in the United States. It goes back almost 200 years, to 1817, when a minister named Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet brought Laurent Clerc, a teacher of the Deaf ...