Article ID: CBB072726037

‘We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization (February 2018)

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Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec over the past decade-and-a-half. The same period roughly coincides with a fourfold increase in the number of individuals and organizations in the region self-identifying with a mixed-race form of indigeneity that is counter to existing Indigenous understandings of kinship and citizenship. This paper examines how recent efforts by genetic scientists, working on a multi-year research project on the ‘diversity’ of the Québec gene pool, intervene in complex settler-Indigenous relations by redefining indigeneity according to the logics of ‘Native American DNA’. Specifically, I demonstrate how genetic scientists mobilize genes associated with Indigenous peoples in ways that support regional efforts to govern settler-Indigenous relations in favour of otherwise white settler claims to Indigenous lands.

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Authors & Contributors
Venegas, Cristina
Asselin, Alain
Tyler David Morgenstern
Rice, Carla
John Cranfield
Manning, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Colonialism
Genealogy
Science and race
Economics
Decolonization
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Canada
Québec (Canada)
United States
Alberta, Canada
Hudson Bay (North America)
South Africa
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