Winnipeg Free Press Game of their lives Winnipeg teachers work with Microsoft and Minecraft to create a pre-colonization pixelated Anishinaabe society populated by Indigenous educators, knowledge keepers and, hey... that's you, Mom! Last Modified: 7:33 AM CST Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021 | Updates In a forest abundant with birch trees, knowledge keeper Chickadee Richard greets students with a teaching about tobacco, known as semaa in Anishinaabemowin. In a forest abundant with birch trees, knowledge keeper Chickadee Richard greets students with a teaching about tobacco, known as semaa in Anishinaabemowin. "Semaa is a gift of reciprocity. We give semaa to receive knowledge and healing," Richard says about a practice that is traditional for Anishinaabe people, via a medium that is anything but.