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Indigenous 2022

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Indigenous :

a: produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment indigenous plants the indigenous culture

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b Indigenous or less commonly indigenous : of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group Indigenous peoples

Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/indigenous

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Diversity: composed of differing elements

Games from 7 Generation Games are

based in different cultures, countries and time

periods. Indigenous landscapes in the games

feature diverse humans, animals and plants.

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Wildflowers in the woods in Spirit Lake Game

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Before the 1870s, most of North Dakota was

prairie, but expansion of agricultural land and

introduction exotic species have contributed

to the loss of many native plants.

Source: Prairie Wildflowers and Grasses of North Dakota. https://gf.nd.gov/sites/default/files/publications/prairie_wildflowers_grasses_0.pdf

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Sheep grazing lands on the Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation tribal lands are one of of the

longest continually inhabited landscapes in

North America.

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Source: Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/item/2018703449/

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Left: Seminole men and women in canoes, in 1904.

Seminoles are Indigenous people of the southeast U.S.

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Right: Two Dakota boys in a canoe, from Spirit Lake: The Game

Source: Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/00650881/

Source: www.7generationgames.com

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Pine Ridge: 1891

Both the men in blankets sitting on the ground

and the men standing around them are Lakota,

people who are Indigenous to the

Great Plains of the United States.

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Tipi: From Spirit Lake : The Game

Between the buffalo robes hung inside the tipi

and the fire burning, Dakota families were able to

keep warm in the winter.

Source: Spirit Lake: The Game https://www.7generationgames.com/spirit-lake/

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House in the snow from Crossroads series

Not all Indigenous people lived a long time ago.

This is a house from a game series set on a

reservation in the north central United States.

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Source: Crossroads: Games of Choices https://strongmindstrongbody.org/crossroads-games-of-choices/

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Eagle pit from Making Camp Dakota

To catch an eagle, the Dakota would hide in a pit

covered with branches, with a dead animal on

top for bait. You can learn about eagle pits in

Making Camp Dakota

Source: https://www.7generationgames.com/making-camp-dakota-beta/

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Tenochtitlan, from AzTech: Empiric Empire

This city was the capital of the empire of

the Indigenous people of what is now Mexico.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan

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Honduran White Bat from AzTech: Meet the Maya

This bat is indigenous to central America, including

Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and

Panama.

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Source: https://www.batcon.org/bat/ectophylla-alba-2/

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Dakota woman on her way to pick berries.

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Source: www.7generationgames.com

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DECEMBER 2022

Tipis in the snow

Not all of the Indigenous people of the Great

Plains lived in tipis. The Lakota and Dakota did

but the Ojibwe lived in wigwams and the Mandan

lived in earth lodges.

Source: https://accessgenealogy.com/north-dakota/mandan-tribe-houses.htm

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