Winnipeg Free Press
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.