When Rivers Were Trails is a point-and-click adventure game about the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890's. It won the Adaptation Award at IndieCade 2019.
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When Rivers Were Trails is a 2D point-and-click adventure game in which
The Oregon Trail meets
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. An
Anishinaabeg in the 1890’s 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.
