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Native American DNA

Kim TallBear

Author : Kim TallBear
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816685790

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Who is a Native American? And who gets to decide? 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. 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. 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. At a larger level, TallBear asserts, the “markers” that are identified and applied to specific groups such as Native American tribes bear the imprints of the cultural, racial, ethnic, national, and even tribal misinterpretations of the humans who study them. TallBear notes that ideas about racial science, which informed white definitions of tribes in the nineteenth century, are unfortunately being revived in twenty-first-century laboratories. Because today’s science seems so compelling, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: “in our blood” is giving way to “in our DNA.” This rhetorical drift, she argues, has significant consequences, and ultimately she shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously—and permanently—undermined.

Origin

Jennifer Raff

Author : Jennifer Raff
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781538749708

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records—and scant archaeological evidence—exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed. A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"

DNA for Native American Genealogy

Roberta Estes

Author : Roberta Estes
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0806321180

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DNA for Native American Genealogy by Roberta Estes Pdf

Written by Roberta Estes, the foremost expert on how to utilize DNA testing to identify Native American ancestors, this book is the first to offer detailed information and advice specifically aimed at family historians interested in fleshing out their Native American family tree through DNA testing. Figuring out how to incorporate DNA testing into your Native American genealogy research can be difficult and daunting. What types of DNA tests are available, and which vendors offer them? What other tools are available? How is Native American DNA determined or recognized in your DNA? What information about your Native American ancestors can DNA testing uncover? This book addresses these questions and much more. Included are step-by-step instructions, with illustrations, on how to use DNA testing at the four major DNA testing companies to further your genealogy and confirm or identify your Native American ancestors. Among the many other topics covered are: tribes in the United States and First Nations in Canada; ethnicity; chromosome painting; population genetics and how ethnicity is assigned; genetic groups and communities; Y DNA paternal direct line male testing; mitochondrial DNA maternal direct line testing; autosomal DNA matching and ethnicity comparisons; creating a DNA pedigree chart; native American haplogroups by region and tribe; ancient and contemporary Native American DNA. Special features include numerous charts and maps; a roadmap and checklist giving you clear instructions on how to proceed; and a glossary to help you decipher the technical language associated with DNA testing.

Native American DNA

Kimberly TallBear

Author : Kimberly TallBear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : DNA fingerprinting
ISBN : 1452946515

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Native American DNA by Kimberly TallBear Pdf

Because today's DNA testing seems so compelling and powerful, increasing numbers of Native Americans have begun to believe their own metaphors: "in our blood" is giving way to "in our DNA." In Native American DNA, Kim TallBear shows how Native American claims to land, resources, and sovereignty that have taken generations to ratify may be seriously-and permanently-undermined.

Cherokee DNA Studies

Donald N. Yates,Teresa A. Yates

Author : Donald N. Yates,Teresa A. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780692313701

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Cherokee DNA Studies by Donald N. Yates,Teresa A. Yates Pdf

Most claims of Native American ancestry rest on the mother's ethnicity. This can be verified by a DNA test determining what type of mitochondrial DNA she passed to you. A hundred participants in DNA Consultants multi-phase Cherokee DNA Study did just that. What they had in common is they were previously rejected--by commercial firms, genealogy groups, government agencies and tribes. Their mitochondrial DNA was not classified as Native American. These are the "anomalous" Cherokee. Share the journeys of discovery and self-awareness of these passionate volunteers who defied the experts and are helping write a new chapter in the Peopling of the Americas. "The Yateses' DNA findings are revolutionary." --Stephen C. Jett, Atlantic Ocean Crossings. "Monumental."--Richard L. Thornton, Apalache Foundation.

Changing Numbers, Changing Needs

National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309055482

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Changing Numbers, Changing Needs by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

The reported population of American Indians and Alaska Natives has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These changes raise questions for the Indian Health Service and other agencies responsible for serving the American Indian population. How big is the population? What are its health care and insurance needs? This volume presents an up-to-date summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native populationâ€"their age and geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This information is critical for health care planners who must determine the eligible population for Indian health services and the costs of providing them. The volume will also be of interest to researchers and policymakers concerned about the future characteristics and needs of the American Indian population.

Playing Indian

Philip J. Deloria

Author : Philip J. Deloria
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300153606

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Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria Pdf

The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts: just a few examples of white Americans' tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles "A valuable contribution to Native American studies."—Kirkus Reviews This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras—and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual. At the Boston Tea Party, colonial rebels played Indian in order to claim an aboriginal American identity. In the nineteenth century, Indian fraternal orders allowed men to rethink the idea of revolution, consolidate national power, and write nationalist literary epics. By the twentieth century, playing Indian helped nervous city dwellers deal with modernist concerns about nature, authenticity, Cold War anxiety, and various forms of relativism. Deloria points out, however, that throughout American history the creative uses of Indianness have been interwoven with conquest and dispossession of the Indians. Indian play has thus been fraught with ambivalence—for white Americans who idealized and villainized the Indian, and for Indians who were both humiliated and empowered by these cultural exercises. Deloria suggests that imagining Indians has helped generations of white Americans define, mask, and evade paradoxes stemming from simultaneous construction and destruction of these native peoples. In the process, Americans have created powerful identities that have never been fully secure.

Losing a Lost Tribe

Simon G. Southerton

Author : Simon G. Southerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1560851813

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Losing a Lost Tribe by Simon G. Southerton Pdf

For the past 175 years, the Latter-day Saint Church has taught that Native Americans and Polynesians are descended from ancient seafaring Israelites. Recent DNA research confirms what anthropologists have been saying for nearly as many years, that Native Americans are originally from Siberia and Polynesians from Southeast Asia. In the current volume, molecular biologist Simon Southerton explains the theology and the science and how the former is being reshaped by the latter. In the Book of Mormon, the Jewish prophet Lehi says the following after arriving by boat in America in 600 BCE: Wherefore, I, Lehi, have obtained a promise, that inasmuch as those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves (2 Ne. 1:9).

The Origins of Native Americans

Michael H. Crawford

Author : Michael H. Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521004101

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The Origins of Native Americans by Michael H. Crawford Pdf

A fascinating account of the genetic, archaeological and demographic evidence for the peopling of the New World.

Native American DNA

Kimberly TallBear

Author : Kimberly TallBear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Genomics
ISBN : UCAL:X72152

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"Native American DNA" intrigues scientists and non-scientists alike from the high-tech anthropology lab, to the genetic genealogist's treasured personal archive, to the glossy world of corporate or made-for-television science. But what is "Native American DNA"? In technical language, it is a set of genetic markers (nucleotides) that appear at different frequencies among different populations: the highest frequencies of so-called Native American markers have been observed by scientists in "unadmixed" native populations in North and South America. But "Native American DNA" should not be understood simply as an objective molecular "thing." It is simultaneously a conceptual apparatus through which humans constitute and deploy life-organizing narratives: historical and national narratives, narratives about race and ethnicity, family and tribe. Sometimes genetic narratives border on the religious, exploring the "origins" of peoples or explaining who individuals "really are." I provide a condensed history of the science of race, tracing a genealogy of "Native American DNA" as a research object and a tool for categorizing both molecules and human beings. I then turn ethnographer to study an on-line community of "genetic genealogists" who use DNA to help trace family histories. From there, I cross into a strange hybrid world where science meets corporate marketing. I mine rich language and imagery--narratives of origins, race, and tribe--woven into the World Wide Web by several DNA testing companies and by the Genographic Project. Mostly, I do not study Native American or tribal perspectives on DNA. I study those who are under-studied, yet culturally influential: scientists and financially-able lovers of science, who incorporate knowledge of particular molecular sequences into their understandings of "Native American." Crucially, such extra-tribal understandings do not require any reference to the historical-regulatory paradigm of US tribal governance. While I do not study tribes, I address them. "Native American DNA" testing embeds non-tribal philosophical assumptions that may undermine tribal governance and identities. I close with suggestions for how indigenous methodologies offer a way to challenge genetics as the ultimate way of knowing about race, tribe, kinship, and individual identity.

"All the Real Indians Died Off"

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807062654

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"All the Real Indians Died Off" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Dina Gilio-Whitaker Pdf

Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: “Columbus Discovered America” “Thanksgiving Proves the Indians Welcomed Pilgrims” “Indians Were Savage and Warlike” “Europeans Brought Civilization to Backward Indians” “The United States Did Not Have a Policy of Genocide” “Sports Mascots Honor Native Americans” “Most Indians Are on Government Welfare” “Indian Casinos Make Them All Rich” “Indians Are Naturally Predisposed to Alcohol” Each chapter deftly shows how these myths are rooted in the fears and prejudice of European settlers and in the larger political agendas of a settler state aimed at acquiring Indigenous land and tied to narratives of erasure and disappearance. Accessibly written and revelatory, “All the Real Indians Died Off” challenges readers to rethink what they have been taught about Native Americans and history.

Old World Roots of the Cherokee

Donald N. Yates

Author : Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786491254

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Old World Roots of the Cherokee by Donald N. Yates Pdf

Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains. Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research, and classical philology, it uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley.

The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA

Jeff Wheelwright

Author : Jeff Wheelwright
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393083422

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The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by Jeff Wheelwright Pdf

A brilliant and emotionally resonant exploration of science and family history. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The mutation most likely sprang from Sephardic Jews hounded by the Spanish Inquisition. The discovery of the gene leads to a fascinating investigation of cultural history and modern genetics by Dr. Harry Ostrer and other experts on the DNA of Jewish populations. Set in the isolated San Luis Valley of Colorado, this beautiful and harrowing book tells of the Medina family’s five-hundred-year passage from medieval Spain to the American Southwest and of their surprising conversion from Catholicism to the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the 1980s. Rejecting conventional therapies in her struggle against cancer, Shonnie Medina died in 1999. Her life embodies a story that could change the way we think about race and faith.

Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes

Joanna Ziarkowska

Author : Joanna Ziarkowska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000194111

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Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes by Joanna Ziarkowska Pdf

This book explores Native American literary responses to biomedical discourses and biomedicalization processes as they circulate in social and cultural contexts. Native American communities resist reductivism of biomedicine that excludes Indigenous (and non-Western) epistemologies and instead draw attention to how illness, healing, treatment, and genetic research are socially constructed and dependent on inherently racialist thinking. This volume highlights how interventions into the hegemony of biomedicine are vigorously addressed in Native American literature. The book covers tuberculosis and diabetes epidemics, the emergence of Native American DNA, discoveries in biotechnology, and the problematics of a biomedical model of psychiatry. The book analyzes work by Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, LeAnne Howe, Linda Hogan, Heid E. Erdrich, Elissa Washuta and Frances Washburn. The book will appeal to scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies, as well as to others with an interest in literature and medicine.

Distorted Descent

Darryl Leroux

Author : Darryl Leroux
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555947

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Distorted Descent by Darryl Leroux Pdf

Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined “Indigenous” identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 300 to 375 years ago through genealogy and using that ancestor as the sole basis for an eventual shift into an “Indigenous” identity today. After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting, Leroux examines two of the most prominent self-identified “Indigenous” organizations currently operating in Quebec. Both organizations have their origins in committed opposition to Indigenous land and territorial negotiations, and both encourage the use of suspect genealogical practices. Distorted Descent brings to light to how these claims to an “Indigenous” identity are then used politically to oppose actual, living Indigenous peoples, exposing along the way the shifting politics of whiteness, white settler colonialism, and white supremacy.

Native American Dna

Native American DNA by Kim TallBear Pdf

Origin by Jennifer Raff Pdf

DNA for Native American Genealogy by Roberta Estes Pdf

Native American DNA by Kimberly TallBear Pdf

Cherokee DNA Studies by Donald N. Yates,Teresa A. Yates Pdf

Changing Numbers, Changing Needs by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population Pdf

Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria Pdf

Losing a Lost Tribe by Simon G. Southerton Pdf

The Origins of Native Americans by Michael H. Crawford Pdf

Native American DNA by Kimberly TallBear Pdf

"All the Real Indians Died Off" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Dina Gilio-Whitaker Pdf

Old World Roots of the Cherokee by Donald N. Yates Pdf

The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by Jeff Wheelwright Pdf

Indigenous Bodies, Cells, and Genes by Joanna Ziarkowska Pdf

Distorted Descent by Darryl Leroux Pdf

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