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What game designers didn't remember was that when players adopted democracy as their main form of government, their aggression level dropped two points. In the first Civilization game, Gandhi was programmed to have the lowest aggression level possible - a score of 1 - to reflect his pacifist politics. Sometimes it's not ignorance or prejudice that results in a poor portrayal of another culture - just bad code! Gandhi in the original Civilization game (Youtube) It's not the first time that video-game representations of minorities have courted controversy. Respect for your your family, your band, your tribe but also respect for the land the air and the water." "Manatsewin speaks about respect: respect for yourself as a human being. "He really practiced this value and ancient law we have in our culture, and I believe it's across all Indigenous cultures. "He stood for peace, good order, good governance," Tootoosis says. Tootoosis says that he's excited at news, revealed by The Current, that the government may be ready to clear Chief Poundmaker's record. The portrayal comes in the midst of a campaign to exonerate Chief Poundmaker from an 1885 treason conviction.

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In this case, live gaming, we would have asked for a copy of the narrative and made sure we went through it before we had given any consent." "We have community members who are not new to the world of media and show business. "We would have connected them to our elders, our storykeepers, our traditional knowledge keepers - we would have had a dialogue," he says. Tootoosis says the company did not consult with the Poundmaker Cree Nation, and they were not given the chance to give consent, but says they would have cooperated in a consultation. The Current approached 2k Games, the makers of Civilization, but did not receive a response. "It depicts the very difficult time in our shared history." He stood for peace, good order, good governance. "The daunting images we have are of him in the latter stages of his life… being very gaunt, very thin, wearing tattered clothing. In the game, he appears well-dressed and healthy, but Tootoosis says this glosses over the hardships suffered by Indigenous people at the time. Tootoosis also expressed misgivings about the visual representations of Chief Poundmaker. " continues to promote some of these ideologies that are connected to concepts of colonialism and imperialism and that doctrine of discovery," he says, "which are totally contrary to the beliefs and values of Chief Poundmaker, and many other Indigenous leaders around the world for that matter."ĭue out next month, the game comes, he says, at a time when "cultural appropriation of Indigenous culture is a global challenge." That imperialist agenda alone is enough to give Tootoosis pause for thought. By playing politics, and engaging in trade, science and warfare, the aim is to best your opponents and conquer the world.

#Civ vi science leaders series

In the Civilization series of games, players take on the identities of famous historical leaders like Chief Poundmaker, growing their nations from small city states into vast empires. The leader in question is Pîhtokahanapiwiyin, also known as Chief Poundmaker, a founder of a Treaty 6 nation near Cut Knife, Saskatchewan. The Current: A peacemaker and a traitor: how Chief Poundmaker will finally have his name cleared."But when I looked further into the matter it raised some questions."

"When I first saw the video game… I thought that's pretty cool, Poundmaker is in a game," Milton Tootoosis, headman with the Poundmaker Cree Nation tells The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti. A video game is shining a spotlight on an Indigenous leader from the 19th century - but members of the Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan aren't sure the makers are playing fair.