Rather than treating video games as simple representations of history, or just simple novelties altogether, Byrd approaches them as systems. Throughout the conversation, Byrd returned to what they call “grounded relationality”—an understanding of land not as property or resource, but as relationship. Image Courtney Lewis (left) and Jodi Byrd (right) discussed the many buried stories found in digital spaces during their conversation on "Indigenomicon." “Land is life,” Byrd shared, contrasting that understanding with Patrick Wolfe’s well-known formulation that “land is necessary for life.” The game’s title itself, Byrd argued, carries “the genocidal implication” that Indigenous people belong only to the past, disconnected from contemporary political life.