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This piece won the Bernard Ewell Innovation Award at SWAIA last year. It is a functional slot machine, the theme of which is "Manifest Destiny... Settle the Country by Any Means Necessary", all the images on the reels feature methods by which land was taken from Natives - whiskey, treaties, religion, diseased blankets, the decimation of the bison and westward expansion. While everything inside the game is how land was stolen, the game itself is how tribes are taking their land back through tribal gaming. The ultimate point of this piece is that there are no winners in this game, which is why it dispenses wooden nickels. This piece is currently featured at the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, NM.