“When the Sky Woman became pregnant, she dropped through a hole in the clouds. While many animals guided her descent as she fell, she eventually found a place on the turtle’s back. They worked together, with the aid of other water creatures, to lift the land from the depths of these primordial waters to create what we now know as our earth.”

Preserving indigenous cosmological knowledge through immersive technology, MIT’s Co-Creation Studio wants to make sure future generations appreciate the contributions made to civilization by the oppressed people whose land we stole and noble way of life we destroyed.

We turn our wicked colonialist eyes away from the slave holding practices of the Haudenosaunee, often accompanied by torture, rape, and cannibalism of their captives. Why? Because it suits our purposes to instead celebrate their communal longhouse egalitarianism, matriarchal societal structures, and overhyped contributions to the early American feminist movement.

Using the power of storytelling, amplified by multimedia technology, essential truths can be communicated that need not be burdened by inconvenient facts. Inclusive tokenism of artists in residence like Jackson 2bears also creates wonderful opportunities to advertise DEI virtue, an important factor when raising money from rubes to Build a Better World™.

Story suggested by Advocatus