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  • Native American DNA

  • Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science
  • Written by: Kim TallBear
  • Narrated by: Donna Postel
  • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Written by: Kim TallBear
Narrated by: Donna Postel
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In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how DNA testing is a powerful - and problematic - scientific process that is useful in determining close biological relatives. But tribal membership is a legal category that has developed in dependence on certain social understandings and historical contexts, a set of concepts that entangles genetic information in a web of family relations, reservation histories, tribal rules, and government regulations. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the "markers" that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them.

TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the 19th century, are unfortunately being revived in 21st-century laboratories. Because today's science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: "in our blood" is giving way to "in our DNA". This rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant consequences, and ultimately, she shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously - and permanently - undermined.

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brilliant

as a student in Native studies and women’s studies, Kim Tallbear is a must read. her body of work is prolific in indigenous DNA and the depth
of her four in research is remarkable and impressive. thoroughly enjoy this book and her other works and podcasts.

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