Our project seeks to preserve the cultural and linguistic heritage of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Striving to bring traditional means of information transmittal into the modern era, our project seeks to capture the attention of a younger audience by building an easy-to-use mobile app that teaches users while they play. Using resources provided by our sponsors within the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, our team will develop a game on the Android platform. Additionally, we will work with representatives from the Colville Tribes in order to ensure our project employs the tenets of cultural sensitivity. Once our project is completed, our team hopes to obtain the full cooperation of the Colville Tribes in order to continue working on the project after graduation. Finally, by digitizing the Colville Tribes’ cultural heritage and presenting the information in a way that engages the current generation, our project will solve the information problem regarding the decline of oral transmittal of culture and language. …...more
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