Description: Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique.
Review Quotes: "Indigenomicon takes a clear-eyed look at how video games mediate the ongoing realities of North American settler colonialism. Historically grounded yet sharply attuned to the present, it interrogates why we remain drawn to worlds built on exclusion and dispossession. Unsettling traditional approaches to video game representation, race, and Indigeneity, Jodi A. Byrd's transformative text challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between power and play."--Tara Fickle, author of, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities
"With vast intellectual prowess and deep knowledge, Jodi A. Byrd disrupts the extractive trajectory of settler colonial studies while outlining how Indigenous Peoples, First Nations, and American Indians are using technologies to tell their stories and assert sovereignty. Indigenomicon illuminates the importance of digital worlds and how we might employ them in anticolonial, antiracist, and decolonial projects. It is a work of importance and magnitude."--Mishuana Goeman, author of, Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in "The New World"