When Rivers Were Trails

Genres

Point-and-clickAdventure

Themes

HistoricalEducational

Modes

Single player

Perspective

First personBird view / Isometric

Developers Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Michigan State University's GEL Lab

Publishers Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Michigan State University's GEL Lab

Release dates

Platform	Date
Mac	February 20, 2019
PC (Microsoft Windows)	February 20, 2019

About

When Rivers Were Trails is a point-and-click adventure game about the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890s.

Story

An Anishinaabeg in the 1890s is displaced from their traditional territory in Minnesota and heads west to California due to the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities, facing Indian Agents, meeting people from different nations, and hunting, fishing, and canoeing along the way as they balance their wellbeing.

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