%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®We¡¯ve been here for 2,000 years¡¯: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization
%A Darryl Leroux
%J Social Studies of Science
%@ 1460-3659
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0306312717751863
%X Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Qu¨¦bec 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 Qu¨¦bec 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
%K DNA ancestry testing
%K French-Canadian settler colonialism
%K genetic ancestry
%K hyperdescent
%K Native American DNA
%K self-indigenization
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312717751863