Cultural content

Posts that contain material that can be taught in a classroom are tagged as “cultural content.”

You may have seen recent headlines about how a number of Native American actors and consultants walked off the set of an Adam Sandler movie because the content was degrading and insulting to Native people. And yeah, if you read any of the articles, it was that bad – even for what […]

Whether It’s Corporate or Game-Portrayed Culture: If it’s not right, ...

May 15, 2015 in Cultural content / Start-up Diaries by Maria Burns Ortiz

We are excited that 7 Generation Games was featured in Indian Country Today Media Network! See the article below or click here. Math Video Games Being Tested in Reservation Classrooms 2/18/15 Six schools on two North Dakota reservations are piloting a series of cutting-edge math video games that bridge math, […]

7 Generation Games featured on Indian Country Today Media Network

February 23, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games / Women in Tech tagged 7 Generation Games / Dakota / Indian Country Today Media Network / Math / Ojibwa / Ojibwe / Spirit Lake Reservation / Turtle Mountain by admin

7 Generation Games flew to North Dakota this week to meet with school superintendents and teachers to install our educational video games in their classrooms and computer labs. Altogether we met with 52 teachers on our trip and and provided on-site training at five different schools. We were able to visit schools on the Turtle Mountain […]

7 Generation Games North Dakota Tour

January 30, 2015 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Educational Games tagged Canada / Geographic Center of North America / International Peace Garden / North Dakota / Spirit Lake / Sully Hill / Turtle Mountain by admin

7GenBanner — These are comments from actual educators. I’m a vegan. I could never buy a game that has shooting deer in it. Couldn’t you have the Indians make friends with the deer instead? We could never use your game in our school because it involves shooting animals. We could never […]

Don’t Know Much About History … (Or, why our games ...

November 25, 2014 in AnnMaria / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

If this is your first visit to our website, thank you for taking the time to read our blog and let us introduce ourselves. We are a company that combines math, Native American history and adventure gaming into our video games. The video clip below demonstrates the (awesome) video games that […]

How does 7 Generation Games differ from other companies?

July 23, 2014 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games / Math tagged 7 Generation Games / Adventure Gaming / Math / Native American History by admin

THROW BACK THURSDAY This post is was written on July 6, 2011, by Dr. Erich Longie, Senior Cultural Consultant for 7 Generation Games. Erich is part of the founding team of 7 Generation Games and oversees our cultural staff to ensure all cultural content is vetted and historically and culturally accurate. […]

National Indian Education Study – more culture = lower math ...

June 12, 2014 in 7GenGames / Cultural content / Education: Innovation and STEM / Educational Games by admin

Our cultural consultant, Dr. Longie, wrote: “My mother, a fluent Dakota language speaker, said this about her beloved Dakota language: “It’s very descriptive; you say what you mean and you mean what you say.” This inherent honesty in our Dakota/Lakota/Nakota language made it hard for a Dakota person to be […]

Dakota Values and Games

June 3, 2014 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by admin

[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

November 2, 2013 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

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 ...

October 20, 2013 in 7GenGames / Cultural content by AnnMaria De Mars

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 […]