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Remaking Oregon Trail video game with an eye toward more accurate Native American depictions
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So he brought in three indigenous historians. They listened to early test music for the game and said, back off the drums and flutes. And don’t use broken, stilted English. Trudgen got it.
“It’s like a trope to make Native American people seem primitive somehow,” Trudgen says. “When actually there were a lot of bilingual or polylingual Native Americans at that time.”
The team of historians came up with more appropriate names for game characters and advocated for new roles for Native Americans, not just as guides or trappers.