Event Details

Archaeology Arcade: When Rivers Were Trails

Time: 2:00 pm til 3:00 pm

Location: https://www.twitch.tv/fpan_online?fbclid=IwAR0eCTB0gU9k-uN6SWceKlUg67tUIxFddpSbXxXZ2Zs0EWh

Description: Join us live on Twitch as we play through the game "When Rivers Were Trails" with special guest Dr. David Lewis. Dr. Lewis was one of the over 30 Indigenous contributors to this game. Winner of the Adaptation Award at IndieCade 2019, "When Rivers Were Trails" is a point-and-click adventure game about the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.

Game Description:

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.

Developed in collaboration with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation and Michigan State University’s Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab thanks to support from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and contributions from over thirty Indigenous writers, artists, and musicians.

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FPAN is hosting this event.