A Factsheet on Using DNA Tests to Uncover Native American Ancestry

Basil L.

This factsheet challenges the legitimacy of claiming Native American ancestry and citizenship based on DNA testing. The factsheet presents a history of scientific racism and details the problems of DNA sampling.

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References

TallBear, Kim. Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Source Authors

Kim Tallbear

Keywords

Active Intervention, Appropriation, Body Politics, Canada's Colonial History, Challenge Assumptions, Colonial Exploitation, Colonialism, Confronting Prejudice, Constructing 'Race', Constructing Difference, DNA as a concept, History of Racism, Identity, Myths and Power, Ongoing Colonialism, Plurality of Experiences, Politics of Citizenship, Racialization, Scientific Ideas and Power, Scientific Racism, Settler Fantasy, Unsettling Settlers, White Supremacy

Locations

North America, Turtle Island, United States

Themes

History, Theory