Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

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native american dna This page intentionally left blank NATIVE AMERICAN DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear university of minnesota press minneapolis | london A different version of chapter 2 was published as “Native-AmericanDNA .com: In Search of Native American Race and Tribe,” in Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, ed. Barbara Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson (Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008), 235–52. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project,” Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 35, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 412–24. Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data TallBear, Kimberly. Native American DNA : tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science / Kim TallBear. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6585-3 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-6586-0 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America—Anthropometry. 2. Human population genetics—North America. 3. DNA fingerprinting—North America. 4. Genetic genealogy—North America. I. Title. E98.A55T35 2013 970.004´97—dc23 2013012526 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to my late grandmother, Arlene Heminger-Lamb, a Dakota woman, who symbolizes for me all those who think deeply on things, but whose choices are few. This page intentionally left blank ...