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A5 THE ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 Oregon Trail video game aims for accurate native depictions OBITUARIES Keith Alan Rooney Seaside April 8, 1967 — Jan. 4, 2021 By ANNA KING Northwest News Network Keith Alan Rooney was born in Astoria on April (Christine); uncle, Gary Bergeson (Pat); uncle, Larry 8, 1967, to Robert E. Rooney and Deanna Rooney Bergeson (Linda); uncle, Wayne Bergeson (Joni); uncle, (Bergeson). Wade Bergeson (Jackie); and aunt, Lynn Bergeson. I miss him so much. He always had a big Dusty Cheuvront was always a big part of smile for everyone, and a big heart, but his Keith’s life. He has always been a big part of heart failed him on Jan. 4, 2021. our family. He was like a son to Keith, and He loved his sons, Robert Leslie Rooney, Keith was so proud of him. Dusty is now a age 12, and Ronny Russell Rooney, age 10, staff sergeant with the U.S. Marines. Keith so much. His boys were named after grandpa was close to Dusty, his wife, Rachell, and Rooney and grandpa Les Ronny Russell their kids, Baily, Zeke and Ellie. Rooney, best friend, Ron Hopla, and great- Keith was a great father. He raised his grandpa, Russell. children by himself, with a little help from Keith graduated from Seaside High grandma Deanna. School in 1986 and went to Mount Hood I love you son, and miss your daily phone Keith Rooney Community College for a short time before calls. joining the U.S. Army in 1988. He attended Love you forever, boot camp in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and then was Mom stationed in Germany, where he was trained as a com- “When I am gone, release me — let me go / I have bat engineer. so many things to see and do. / You must not tie yourself Once he was out of the Army, Keith moved to to me with tears / Be happy that we had so many years. Alaska to work with his dad as a heavy equipment oper- “I gave you love, you can only guess / How much ator. Most recently, he worked as a driver Clean Sweep, you gave me in happiness. / I thank you for the love owned by Ben and Tammy Olson. each have shown / But now it is time I traveled alone. We lived in a logging camp in Thorne Bay, Alaska, “So grieve awhile for me if grieve you must / Then from 1969 to 1974. Keith attended fi rst grade there. He let your grief be comforted by trust. / It is only for a became a big brother when his sister, Shannon, was while that we must part / So bless those memories born in Ketchikan, Alaska, in 1971. within your heart. Baseball was Keith’s favorite sport growing up. “I will not be far away, for life goes on / So if you From pee-wee to varsity, we never missed a game. need me, call and I will come. / Though you cannot see Keith was a catcher for all four years on varsity. He or touch me, I will be near/ And if you listen with your had a lot of respect for coach Jim Auld, from whom he heart, you will hear / All of my love around you, soft learned a great deal. and clear. Keith had a lot of friends and family. He is survived “Then when you must come this way alone / I will by his dad, Robert Rooney (Sandee), in Fairbanks, greet you with a smile and ‘Welcome Home.’” Alaska; and his mother, Deanna, and stepfather, Les We would like to thank everyone who was so kind Philbrook, of Seaside. in sending fl owers and cards and and making condo- In addition, Keith leaves behind the following fam- lence calls. ily members: brother, Hunter Rooney; sister, Dakotah We would also like to thank Providence Seaside Rooney; brother, Brandon Philbrook, his wife, Jen, and Hospital and Providence St. Vincent Medical Center nieces, Emily and Leiana; sister, Shannon Lahaie, her for taking good care of Keith and for everything they partner, Jim, and their children, Kaelee and Jacob; sis- did. We appreciate it. ter, Charmagne Stous (Ray); brother, James Philbrook Thank you from the Philbrook and Rooney families. Jazz Halfmoon remembers play- ing the educational video game Ore- gon Trail as a reward for doing well in her Oregon grade school class. “It was on a super old computer,” she said. “The green screen was like the only color.” She said it was really exciting, and the kids would often clamor and fi ght over who could play the game on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation in Eastern Oregon. “I remember being like ‘oh, like the Indians killed off somebody in your wagon train … and then being like, ‘Oh, we’re Indians, you know,’” Halfmoon said. Halfmoon, 38, and a generation of kids like her grew up playing it. They remember the game mostly for the moment — wait for it — their party died of dysentery. Now, a new spin on the wagon train game focuses on more accurately representing Native Americans. The company Gameloft tack- led the redesign of Oregon Trail for Apple Arcade just in time for the increase in worldwide play because of the coronavirus pandemic. Its tar- get audience: the now-40-year-olds and their kids. And more Native American players. Gameloft Brisbane creative director Jarrad Trudgen had to root out historical inaccuracies and cli- ches about Native American culture. “Well, as a white, middle class Australian, I don’t think I can really speak to that,” he said about getting everything right for Indigenous peo- ples in the new game. “I’d like help with that. And I’d like to talk to some Native Americans, and some Native American history professors.” So he brought in three Indigenous historians. They listened to early test music for the game and said back off the drums and fl utes. And don’t use broken, stilted English. Trudgen got it. “It’s like a trope to make Native American people seem primitive somehow,” Trudgen said. “When actually there were a lot of bilingual or polylingual Native Americans at that time.” The team of historians came up with more appropriate names for game characters and advocated for new roles for Native Americans, not Charles (Chuck) Cameron Seaview, Washington April 23, 1931 — April 18, 2021 Charles (Chuck) Cameron, 89, of Chuck’s Fly Shop in Seaview, Washington, passed away in his sleep on April 18, 2021, of natural causes, at Ocean Beach Hospital. Charles was born on April 23, 1931, in “Cherry Cor- ner,” Parker Heights, Wapato, Washington. Charles was raised on a fruit farm on Lombard Loop Road and graduated from Wapato High School in 1950. He and his family moved to Seaview in 1964, where he worked at the Crown Zellerbach paper mill at Wauna until retirement. He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Lois Cam- eron; sons, Chris Cameron, and ex-wife, Janice, of Logsden, and Patrick (Sherryl), of Seaview; daugh- ter, Martha Thompson, of Port Angeles, Washing- ton; grandchildren, Dana Cameron, of Newport, KC (Ty) Wilson, of Bellevue, Washington, Rachel Cam- eron, of Yelm, Washington, Sean (Lauren) Thompson, of Acworth, Georgia, and Tina (Dean) Martineau, of Seaview; and six great-grandchildren. Charles was preceded in death by his parents, Virgil and Clio Cameron; brother, Virgil Cameron; daughter, Susan Durant; and a grandson, Charles Thompson. Charles lived and breathed fi shing. He was an artist when it came to tying fl ies. He always had a river or lake he wanted to fl y fi sh wherever he went. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. Gameloft The Oregon Trail game is part of the new Apple Arcade. It features more accurate depictions of Native American characters, historically-based story lines and researched clothing styles. just as guides or trappers. University of Nebraska his- torian Margaret Huettl has Lac Courte Oreilles tribal ancestors. She researched old photos and drawings for accurate depictions of diff erent tribes’ clothing and style. “Initially, all of the Native people (in the revamped game) had braids,” Huettl said. “And I think we sug- gested, maybe they don’t all have to have braids.” One major teaching moment for Trudgen was about bows and arrows. He defi nitely wanted them. “There are a lot of popular games out there, ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘Last of Us,’ and like these big games where bows and arrows are sick,” Trudgen said. But Huettl explained if you were a Native American trapper at the time of the Oregon Trail, you were more likely to have a rifl e, so bows and arrows are an outdated stereotype. “That wasn’t our intention at all, obviously,” Trudgen said. “We were just coming to it sort of as a naive ‘bow and arrows are cool’ angle.” David Lewis teaches anthropol- ogy and ethnic studies at Oregon State University. He’s a member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the territory where many Oregon Trail settlers ended up. “(Tribes) were excited initially for all the new products: the guns, the metals and fabrics and things like that,” Lewis said. But, he said, the real Oregon Trail wasn’t a positive story for Native Americans. The settlers kept com- ing, and the government forced tribes into bad deals, like treaties that gave away their best land and forced their people onto reservations where many died. 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