Department of Social Justice & Community Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Soc Stud Sci. 2018 Feb;48(1):80-100. doi: 10.1177/0306312717751863. Epub 2018 Jan 9.
Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec 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 Québec 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.
在过去的十五年中，依靠在家族史方面受过良好教育的民众，以祖传谱系为基础，魁北克已经发展出了一个强大的国家基因组学部门。同一时期，该地区自我认同为混合种族原住民的个人和组织数量大约增加了四倍，这与现有的原住民亲属关系和公民身份观念相冲突。本文考察了遗传科学家在一项关于魁北克基因库“多样性”的多年研究项目中所做的最新努力，他们如何根据“北美原住民 DNA”的逻辑重新定义原住民身份，从而干预复杂的殖民者-原住民关系。具体来说，我展示了遗传科学家如何调动与原住民相关的基因，以支持该地区管理殖民者-原住民关系的努力，从而有利于其他白人殖民者对原住民土地的主张。
