“Our Stories about Extraction”: A Brief Interview with Elizabeth LaPensée

In this brief interview, Jordan B. Kinder discusses Thunderbird Strike with Anishinaabe, Métis, and settler-Irish media theorist and artist Elizabeth LaPensée. Thunderbird Strike is a multiplatform, two-dimensional sidescrolling video game created by LaPensée in collaboration with Adrian Cheater and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:MediaTropes
Main Authors: Elizabeth LaPensée, Jordan Kinder
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Libraries 2020
Subjects:
extractivism
Indigeneity
video games
Indigenous self-determination
settler-colonialism
resistance
Visual arts
N1-9211
Communication. Mass media
P87-96
Thunderbird
anishina*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.33137/mt.v7i2.33677
https://doaj.org/article/48b83d4d87d4428c84cd74a792cd8475
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Summary:In this brief interview, Jordan B. Kinder discusses Thunderbird Strike with Anishinaabe, Métis, and settler-Irish media theorist and artist Elizabeth LaPensée. Thunderbird Strike is a multiplatform, two-dimensional sidescrolling video game created by LaPensée in collaboration with Adrian Cheater and Aubrey Jane Scott (programming), NÀHGĄ a.k.a. Casey Koyczan (music and sound effects), and Kaitlin Rose Lenhard (cut scene editing). The conversation is centred on the inspiration for Thunderbird Strike, its reception, and its possibilities as a pedagogical medium.

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