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Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Byrd, Jodi A.

Hardcover

Series: Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture

Games & Activities GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1478029277
ISBN13: 9781478029274
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 11 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon, Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Byrd theorizes the image of the law of the Indigenous as structuring dispossession in games including Assassin's Creed, Animal Crossing, BioShock Infinite, and Demon Souls. They demonstrate how games and play might reveal histories of slavery, genocide, and theft of Indigenous lands even as their structures obscure Indigenous spatial and embodied practices that prioritize relationships with land, water, plants, and spirits. With ground and relationality defined as key concepts, Byrd centers Indigenous visions of dystopias to reveal how game spaces encode settler structures of governance even as the design of games might yet provide vital modes of resistance to Indigenous erasure.

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