Native American DNA Tallbear Kim
Native American DNA Tallbear Kim Who is a Native American? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the…
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Native American DNA Tallbear Kim
Who is a Native American? From genealogists searching online for their ancestors to fortune hunters hoping for a slice of casino profits from wealthy tribes, the answers to these seemingly straightforward questions have profound ramifications. And who gets to decide?
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. The rise of DNA testing has further complicated the issues and raised the stakes.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. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the "markers" that are identified and applied to