Oregon Trail

I remember playing Oregon Trail before when I was a kid and I have to agree with Bill Bigelow says in his article, the CD-ROM is culturally bias. The game doesn’t teach all the facts about the journey and you are only allowed to see from a Caucasian male’s perspective while playing the game. I vaguely remember playing the game when I was younger mainly because I was disinterested in it and at my elementary school we didn’t play the game because I went to a elementary school were Native Americans were the majority, because I lived on a reservation, and so the teachers are more aware of the culture of Native Americans and found the Oregon Trail game not an effective way to teach I actually found out about the game through the Boys and Girls Club. What I liked about this article was the method you can use the Oregon Trail game at the end of the article after talking about it first and then looking at the game to see things that are hidden or incorrectly told about the Oregon Trail.