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Game of their lives
Winnipeg teachers work with Microsoft and Minecraft to create a pre-colonization pixelated Anishinaabe society populated by Indigenous educators, knowledge keepers and, hey. that s you, Mom!
Last Modified: 7:33 AM CST Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | Updates
In a forest abundant with birch trees, knowledge keeper Chickadee Richard greets students with a teaching about tobacco, known as semaa in Anishinaabemowin.
In a forest abundant with birch trees, knowledge keeper Chickadee Richard greets students with a teaching about tobacco, known as semaa in Anishinaabemowin. Semaa is a gift of reciprocity. We give semaa to receive knowledge and healing, Richard says about a practice that is traditional for Anishinaabe people, via a medium that is anything but.
Posted: Feb 06, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 6
Winter Cameron-Catcheway, a Grade 4 student at Marion School, was one of the first students to explore Minecraft s Anishinaabe virtual world Manito Ahbee Aki.(Lenard Monkman/CBC)
Students in Winnipeg s Louis Riel School division got the first chance to learn, build and explore Manitoba s Anishinaabe environment this week through the virtual world of
Minecraft.
Winter Cameron-Catcheway, 9, is an Anishinaabe student at Marion School, which is part of the Louis Riel School Division. She has been playing
Minecraft a
popular video game where players explore a world and build items and structures for two years and was one of the first people to play Minecraft Education s