Video Games
Made by Native Americans
Voyages Into Native Worlds: Gaming Offers a Glimpse into Indigenous Cultures and Stories
From Issue: Winter 2021 / Vol. 22 No. 4
Article written by: Vincent Schilling is an Akwesasne Mohawk journalist
This article is a great source of information for video games designed by Indigenous people
There are links below for some of the video games listed in the article.
Thunderbird Strike - "Fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole."
Never Alone
“Never Alone” is the first video game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat. It is about a girl named Nuna and her best friend an Arctic Fox as they traverse the Alaskan wilderness.
Tipi Kaga or in English Tipi Builder is a game about constructing a Lakota Tipi all of the dialogue is in the Lakota language.
Sources
Makers of lakota games: Tipi Kaga. Northern Plains Games. (2021). https://northernplainsgames.com/tipi-kaga-builder
Schilling, V., (n.d.). Voyages into native worlds: Gaming offers a glimpse into indigenous cultures and stories. NMAI Magazine. https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/Indigenous-video-game
Thunderbird Strike. (2016). https://www.thunderbirdstrike.com/about