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This event was the largest intertribal meeting of Indian chiefs, elders, medicine men, and other representatives ever filmed. There were eighteen official participants, including representatives from a dozen different tribes and language groups from the Plains, Plateau, and Basin cultural areas. A permanent monument to the Indian Sign Language Council signifying the importance of this gathering was established at the conference site, and each of the council members had their footprints placed in bronze as a part of the monument. On this site was eventually constructed the Museum of the Plains Indian.
General Hugh L. Scott began his military career as a Lieutenant in the US Cavalry, and by 1915 was promoted to Major General. Before mandatory retirement from military and civil service in 1917 at the age of 65, Scott served as interim Secretary of War on Woodrow Wilson's cabinet. Though officially retired, Scott remained extremely active in civil service and as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. He spent the remainder of his life studying, lecturing, and writing about Indian Sign Language. Scott was a member of numerous learned societies including the American Anthropological Association.
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