"We've been here for 2,000 years': White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization

作者：Leroux Darryl^*

来源：Social Studies of Science, 2018, 48(1): 80-100.

DOI：10.1177/0306312717751863

• DNA ancestry testing
• French-Canadian settler colonialism
• genetic ancestry
• hyperdescent
• Native American DNA
• self-indigenization

Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Quebec 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 Quebec 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.

• 出版日期2018-2