These B.C. teens are being immersed in local Indigenous culture — by playing Minecraft

As puffs of smoke rise from a fire inside a kʷikʷəƛəm (Kwikwetlem) big house, middle school student Elsa Romey reaches over to help her twin sister Maya turn soft cedar wood into a box with an inlay-carved lid.

“This is a bentwood box,” she tells CBC News. “You can store stuff in it.”

“Important stuff,” Maya adds. “Things that have meaning to you.”

xmunk,

Hey, it’s not great but if they’re learning and engaged then it’s better than nothing.

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