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Video games encourage Indigenous cultural expression

  • Written by Elizabeth LaPensée, Assistant Professor of Media and Information and Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures, Michigan State University
imageIndigenous games like 'Honour Water' can teach Indigenous values and ceremonial practices.Honour Water/Elizabeth LaPensée, CC BY-ND

Video games are robust forms of creative expression merging design, code, art and sound. Unfortunately, many games misrepresent or appropriate from Indigenous communities by falling back on stereotypes or...

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