When Rivers Were Trails
Barcode: 58996661
Call Number: Contact Staff for Access
Material Type: Game -Digital
Date: 2019
Language: Ojibwe / Anishinaabemowin, English
Creator: Creative directing by Nichlas Emmons, creative directing, design, and user interface art by Elizabeth LaPensée, art by Weshoyot Alvitre, and music by Supaman and Michael Charette
Description: Available for download at: https://indianlandtenure.itch.io/when-rivers-were-trails
When Rivers Were Trails is a 2D point-and-click adventure game in which Oregon Trail meets Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. An Anishinaabeg in the 1890’s is displaced from their traditional territory in Minnesota and heads west to California due to the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities, facing Indian Agents, meeting people from different nations, and hunting, fishing, and canoeing along the way as they balance their wellbeing.
Subjects: 2D, Point and click, Adventure
Collection: Language Resource Center