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Native American Dna Klr"1 TALLBEAR IihTIVE ~~ERIChli DIi~ Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science NATIVE AMERICAN DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS I LONDON A different version of chapter 2 was puhlished as "Native-American- DNA.com: In Search of Native American Race and Tribe," in Revisitill,g Race ill ({ Genomic Age, ed. Barbara Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah S. Richardson (Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2(08), 235-52. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as "Narratives of Race and Indigeneity in the Genographic Project," Jounla/ ofl.au: Medicine. and l/rhic: 35, no. 3 (Fall 2(07): 412-24. Dedicated to my late grandmother, Copyright 2013 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota Arlene Heminger-Lamb, a Dakota woman, who symbolizes for me all those who think deeply on things, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a but whose choices are few. 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, ,\-iN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data lallBear, Kimberly. Native American DNA: tribal belonging and the false promise of genetic science / Kim ~IallBear. Includes bihliograpbical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6585-3 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-6586-0 (ph : alk. paper) 1. Indians of North America-Anthropometry. 2. Human population genetics-North America. 3. DNA fingerprinting-North America. 4. Genetic gencalogy=-North America. I. Title. E98.A55T35 2013 970.004 '97 -dc2 3 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 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODU(:TION An Indigenous, Feminist Approach to DNA Politics 1. Racial Science, Blood, and DNA 2. The DNA Dot-com: Selling Ancestry -'. Genetic Genealogy Online 105 4. The Genographic Project: The Business of Research and Representation 143 CONCLUSION Indigenous and Genetic Governance and Knowledge NOTES INDEX 237 - AN INDIGENOUS, FEMINIST APPROACH TO DNA POLITICS SCIENTISTS AND TilE PUBLICALIKEare on the hunt for "Native Amer- ican DNA."I Hi-tech genomics labs at universities around the world search for answers to questions about human origins and ancient global migrations. In the glossy world of made-for-television science, celebrity geneticist Spencer Wells travels in jet planes and Land Rovers to far- flung deserts and ice fields. Clad in North Face® gear, he goes in search of indigenous DNA that will provide a clearer window into our collec- tive human past. Others-housewives, retirees, professionals in their spare time- search for faded faces and long-ago names, proof that their grandmoth- ers' stories are true, that there are Indians obscured in the dense foliage of the family tree. Some are meticulous researchers, genealogists who want to fill in the blanks in their ancestral histories. They combine DNA testing with online networking to find their "DNA cousins." Some have romantic visions of documenting that "spiritual connection" they've always felt to Native Americans. A few imagine casino payouts or free housing, education, and health care if they can get enrolled in a Native American tribe. Applicants to Ivy League and other top-ranked schools have had their genomes surveyed for Native American DNA and other non- European ancestries with the hope of gaining racial favor in competitive admissions processes. Former citizens of Native American tribes ejected for reasons having to do with the financial stakes of mem- bership have sought proof of Native American DNA to help them get back onto tribal rolls.' One mother-herself an adoptee from a Native American biological mother-sought a DNA test in order to forestall legal termination of her parental rights. If she could represent herself =; Introduction Introduction 3 and her child as genetically Native American, she hoped to invoke the applied to traditional anthropological questions, including the study of Indian Child Welfare Act, which inhibits the adoption of children away ancient human migrations and the biological and cultural relationships from Native American parents and communities.' between populations. The new subfield of molecular anthropology was born, sometimes also called anthropological genetics.' Sets of markers or nucleotides in both the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and in chromo- WHAT Is NATIVE AMERICANDNA? somal DNA were observed to appear at different frequencies among dif- TIl understand Native American DNA, it is not enough to discuss sim- ferent populations. The highest frequencies of so-called Native American ply what genetic scientists say they are looking for in their samples- markers are observed by scientists in "unadrnixed" native populations in though I will do that shortly. It is also important to look back at how North and South America. These markers are the genetic inheritance of Native American bodies have been treated historically, for knowledge- "founder populations," allegedly the first humans to walk in these lands producing cultures and practices that shaped earlier research continue that we now call the Americas. to influence the way science is done today. Biophysical scientists have for On the order of millennia, anthropological geneticists want to under- several centuries crafted and refined particular questions, terminologies, stand which human groups, or "populations," are related to which others, and methods in their studies of Native American and other marginalized and who descended from whom. Where geographically did the ances- bodies. Native American bodies, both dead and living, have been sources tors of different human groups migrate from? What were their pat- of bone, and more recently of blood, spit, and hair, used to constitute terns of geographic migration, and when did such migrations occur? In knowledge of human biological and cultural history. In the nineteenth the genomes of the living and the dead, scientists look for molecular and early twentieth centuries, the American School of Anthropology rose sequences-the "genetic signatures" of ancient peoples whom they per- to worldwide prominence through the physical inspection of Native ceive as original continental populations: for example, Indo-Europeans, American bones and skulls plucked from battlefields or from recent Africans, Asians, and Native Americans. Native American DNA, as a gravesites by grave robbers-cum-contract workers for scientists. It was (threatened and vanishing) scientific object of study, can help answer what certainly distasteful work to scavenge decomposing bodies and boil are, for these scientists, pressing human questions. them down so bones could be sent more easily to laboratories clean and Unlike scientists or consumers of genetic-ancestry tests, I stretch ready for examination. the definition of Native American DNA beyond its usual reference to But two justifications emerged for the work, justifications that will "New World" genetic ancestry traceable either through female mtDNA ring familiar in my analysis of genetic scientists' treatment of Native and male Y-chromosome lines or through more complex tests that com- Americans' DNA. First, this sort of research was and is for the good of bine multiple markers across the genome to trace ancestry. I include the knowledge, and knowledge, it was and is supposed, is for the good of all, "DNA profile" as I examine the material and social work that Native despite complaints by Native Americans then and now about research American DNA does in the world. Commonly used in criminal cases, purposes and methods. Second, the Indians were seen as doomed to van- this test has been referred to as a "DNA fingerprint." Within an individ- ish before the steam engine of westward expansion. Today, "indigenous ual's genome, multiple sets of genetic markers are examined. They act like peoples" are doomed to vanish through genetic admixture. The idea a genetic fingerprint to identify an individual at a very high probability. was then and is now that they should be studied before their kind is no As a parentage test, the same form of analysis shows genetic relatedness more. It is not the means but the ends that science keeps its sights on. between parent and child. When used by U.S. tribes and Canadian First Given that background, what, in technical terms, is Native Ameri- Nations as part of conferring citizenship (also called "enrollment"), the can DNA? In the early 1960s, new biochemical techniques began to be DNA fingerprint becomes essentially a marker of Native Arnericanness. 4 Introduction Introduction )" More than genetic-ancestry tests that target "Native American" as a and transcriptions that indicate genetic relationships and histories- race or panethnic category, the DNA profile is helping to reconfigure have not been simply uncovered in human genomes; they have been the concept of tribe. conceived in ways shaped by key historical events and influential narra- Technically, the DNA profile promises only to identify an individual tives. Native American DNA as it is usually defined refers to molecules or close biological kin relationship. But one must have a basic grasp of that track
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