Lyrical passages map the parallel lives of ancestral figures and connect dispossessions of the past to lived experiences of the present

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Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession stories Lyrical passages map the parallelSettler 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