Bridging The Gap # 41: Floyd Favel answers a question asked by Teresa Peterson...

Floyd Favel (Plains Cree from Poundmaker Cree Nation) is a theater artist, educator, knowledge keeper, and writer. Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), or Hand Talk, was a complex means of communication in North America. PISL plays an important role in Favel’s research, as well as in the annual Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival directed by Favel. “Floyd Favel clearly prides himself in his knowledge of the Cree language as his mother tongue and first language before English and indicates that the Plains Sign Language is his second language, also before English. He is going to tell us more about the Plains Sign Language and sign language in general, which has been around since the beginning of mankind.” Excerpt from one of the most recent manuscripts of the ‘Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages’ (UPIL) http://radioaulamundi.website3.me/the-universal-phrasebook-of-indigenous-languages-upil https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/upil ••• https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/floyd-favel.html https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxHLKQ2A-YA ••• Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and member of the Upper Sioux Community. She is the author of the book ‘Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden’ and loves to share prose, poetry, and recipes guiding us through the Dakota seasons to impart lessons from her life as a gardener, gatherer, and caretaker of the land. ••• https://www.teresapetersonwords.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Teresa-R-Peterson/author/B09SF7Y1PW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_28&sr=1-28&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true ••• In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK ••• Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker ••• Radio Aula Mundi, April April At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken… It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’… ••• Radio Aula Mundi Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Cente••• https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=32mCc1rHxF6P2_k9 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e5lZU4LDuNWY8e7lzTVK4mt&si=_GoKP4ZOtLujYK_z •••