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Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival

Our Performance Festival is a 3 day local and global gathering with a multi cultural presence that brings together Indigenous and a multi-cultural events with presenters from near and afar to share performance, ceremony, knowledge, and art in an Indigenous community.

Plains Indian Sign Language

We host Plains Indian Sign Language workshops at our festival as part of our Indigenous performance method. This is the only consistent workshop in North America to offer instruction in the language. 

Books

The book, Ashes and Embers: Stories of the Delmas Indian Residential School, written by Floyd Favel and designed by Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand was released November 2022.

The book, Writing from the Earth. The Indigenous Theater of Floyd Favel, written by Floyd Favel and edited by Aneta Głowacka, Eugenia Sojka was published in 2021.

The book, The Story of Broken Knife Lookout, written by Floyd Favel and illustrated by Alix Van Der Donckt-Ferrand was published in 2020.

Poundmaker Museum & Gallery

Our museum is dedicated to the history of the Poundmaker Cree Nation. Here we seek to relay, orally and with documentation, the history of our people and of our community.

Pipon Maskanaw: Winter Trail Sacred Stories

This series of videos features AJ douglas, Kathia Rock, Crystal Shield, Vivian Stoney, Ken Saddleback & Daphie Pooyak, who use storytelling to share history, culture, and knowledge.

Films

The documentary, Ashes & Embers, written and produced by Floyd Favel, was released in 2021.

The film, Hand Talking, was produced by Floyd Favel & Miyawata Culture Inc., with the help of the Department of Canadian Heritage and released in 2020.