I am an old-school video game player, back from the Atari days, so I knew who Firaxis Games was, I knew the Civilization series,” said Chief Ben Barnes, Shawnee Tribe.

Friday marked a day that many people, including Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes, have fought toward for years — acknowledgment of the hardships Indigenous faced at boarding schools.

Chief Ben Barnes of the Shawnee Tribe talks about the tribes involvement in Civilization VII at the Sept. 20 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Shawnee Language Center in Miami, Okla.

MIAMI, Okla. — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including "probably hundreds of hours" colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. So ...

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.

MIAMI, Okla. — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including "probably hundreds of hours" colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

MIAMI, Okla. — Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes grew up playing video games, including “probably hundreds of hours” colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri.