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All information gathered from Before Knox and the Knox College website, with music procured from Music by Joystock – https://www.joystock.org

I ended up playing The Oregon Trail and When Rivers Were Trails and got very invested in each of the games for pretty different reasons. Both of them involved survival, Oregon emphasized the survival of your family during migration while Rivers focused on the survival of yourself while experiencing displacement, It’s a bit disturbing to

There are instances in video games where the real world is incorporated or referenced in some way. During the past week, I played two video games that explore US history. US history has had a long trend of leaving out Native American Peoples. Whenever Native American peoples were mentioned, they would often be relegated to

As different generations of children mature and make their way through school, educators are hard pressed to find different ways to keep them engaged and support their learning. Enter: video games. They tend to be perceived as just a pass time or a hobby pursued by youths of today, but they can be utilized to

Tony Perez https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:NMAI_87745?q=*%3A*&fq=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.exhibition.building%3A%22NMAI+NY%22&fq=onphysicalexhibit%3AYes&fq=culture%3A%22Indians+of+North+America%22&fq=culture%3A%22Northwest+Coast%22&record=7&hlterm=*%3A*&inline=true https://collections.si.edu/search/detail/edanmdm:NMAI_277803?q=*%3A*&fq=p.edanmdm.indexedstructured.exhibition.building%3A%22NMAI+NY%22&fq=onphysicalexhibit%3AYes&fq=culture%3A%22Indians+of+North+America%22&fq=culture%3A%22Northwest+Coast%22&record=10&hlterm=*%3A*&inline=true I picked out two objects from the Pacific Northwest; one was a mask and the other was a basket. Interestingly enough, the mask was recorded with an uncertainty as to who it was created by. These items came from the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution. The

History tends to be made up of the things left behind; stories, physical items, buildings, those are the pieces used to craft the narratives that explain human history at its core. With that, the information available about some items can be overwhelming — like the entirety of the history of the Mona Lisa and how

https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/3 https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/4 For Omeka, I chose two items potentially from the Blackfoot Nation that I felt represented art and culture in two different ways. The first artifact was Deerskin with Painted Decoration, the museum considers it a painting that stood out to me because it looks very similar to a conventional European painting but used

For my first Omeka item, I chose jewelry, a shawl pin of Aymara Indian people https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/2 And for my next item I chose the text of The Bear Foot Legend of Iroquois, Onondaga people https://omekahist295.jenniferandrella.com/items/show/5 The process of item creation was fun and new, I enjoyed it. The text I chose did not have a