Are you an educator in North or South Dakota? Would you like to work with us to make games to teach about Native American veterans and get credit for your graduate or undergraduate degree?

Two groups who are not sufficiently recognized for their efforts are Native American veterans and educators. That is why we are so excited to offer this opportunity for educators – elementary and secondary education teachers, cultural teachers – to co-design a game with us using resources from the Library of Congress and other primary sources – like the image above from the Veterans weekend powwow (https://www.loc.gov/item/2018702236/ )

The first online workshop is August 2nd. Our second meeting will be in Fort Yates in October. Teachers in North or South Dakota will have their travel expenses reimbursed. The final meeting, December 9, is online again. Oh – did we mention teachers who participate can get credit from Sitting Bull College? Or that we will actually make the game your cohort designs?

Use this form to sign up

While we expect that most educators who attend will be teaching social studies or cultural studies, we welcome teachers of any subject. Certainly the high proportion of Native Americans (men and women) who have served in the military (the highest of any racial or ethnic group), the disproportionate rate at which Native Americans died during world wars as a result of volunteering for the most dangerous missions – and many, many more opportunities present themselves for teaching about Native Americans in math classes in the context of statistics, decimals or fractions. We’re all about cross-curricular and project based learning here at 7 Generation Games.

If you need more information before signing up, you can read about the project (and then sign up) here