Our staff has been on the road most of the last few months. This summary is just since September. AnnMaria met with schools in Kansas City (MO), Spirit Lake (ND), Turtle Mountain (ND), San Bernardino (CA) and Baldwin Park (CA). Our game was installed in one school and one community […]
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This week, we attended a two-day event for winners of the USDA Small Business Innovation Research awards. In a nutshell, the SBIR awards are given in two phases. The first phase is $100,000 for eight months to develop a prototype. That’s the money USDA gives you, you can spend more […]
What Happens When You Get a Group of Innovative Companies ...
[NOTE: In keeping with the theme of “Getting to know us”, here is a post from our lead cultural consultant, Dr. Erich Longie, originally posted on the lastrealindians site.] Dakota values bring me a satisfaction with my life that I could not find anywhere else. I first met my nephew, […]
Being Dakota Starts With Living Your Values
We talk a lot about what we’re doing on this blog. But we figured it would also be great to talk a bit about who we are. When we were coming up with who to feature first, our illustrator Gene Wilson jumped right to mind. Gene’s drawings will appear in […]
Meet the Team: Artist Gene Wilson
My name is Dr. Erich Longie. I was born and raised on the Spirit Lake Nation of which I am a member. I still reside on Spirit Lake because like most Indians my age, living someplace else is not an option. The Rez is my home, it’s where my family […]
Our Cultural Consultant on Cultural Content in Spirit Lake: The ...
Earlier today, in looking up something relatively unrelated using Google, I stumbled across a forum thread blasting our game. I won’t give them the honor of linking/using their name, but the back-and-forth included comments accusing our game of racism, denigrating (although they didn’t use such a big word) Native American […]
I’m Offended That You’re Offended
Want to work with us? That’s a rhetorical question. Of course, you do. Now, here’s your chance. We’re looking for a paid intern who can commit to roughly 10 hours a week. Our basic pre-requisites: – You have to be reliable. Moreover, you need to understand that deadlines are absolutely […]
Paid Internship with 7 Generation Games
I swear on this stack of fish that I will never criticize software manufacturers again. I realize a stack of Bibles is the traditional swearing on stack but I did not have a picture of that, whereas as fish stack was available. Also, if as very probable, this turns out […]
I Will Never Bad-mouth Microsoft Again
7 Generation Games integrates math, adventure gaming and Native American history. In eight weeks, students who played our games scored 300 percent higher on post-test. Aligned with Common Core standards. Culturally and historically accurate portrayal. Launched product on Spirit Lake Nation. Work directly with tribes portrayed, employ tribal members, used […]
7 Generation Games at EdCampMSP
If you’ve never read Sojourner Truth’s wonderful speech, “Aint I a Woman” given at the Women’s Convention in 1851, you have missed out. Here is my favorite part: That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best […]
Ain’t We a Start-up?
Last week, our cultural consultant Dr. Erich Longie and our co-founder Maria Burns Ortiz traveled to Prior Lake, Minnesota (right outside of the Twin Cities) to attend the biennial Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium. The event brings together Native Americans from across Minnesota and the surrounding areas to discuss issues relating […]
7 Generation Games at Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium
In designing Fish Lake, we have largely followed the Common Core State Standards and closely studied test questions from the various samples released to give schools an idea what to expect. There are times, however, when Common Core and I are at odds. For one thing, the assertion that one […]