Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up old accusations that may have ultimately cost him that race. “As you know, she’s not Native American,” Brown told reporters this week. “She’s not 1/32 Cherokee.” He then called on Harvard University, where Warren [...]
Keolu Fox is on a mission to increase ethnic diversity in human genome sequencing. Fox, an indigenous Hawaiian geneticist, was studying at the University of Washington when he discovered that less than four per cent of human genome sequencing is non-European, with less than one per cent being from indigenous people. Human genome sequencing could [...]
An engaging discussion is anticipated Tuesday, at Station 20 West in Saskatoon, when three Indigenous scholars — Kim TallBear, Audra Simpson and Kim Anderson — will be sharing insights on feminism. The event, Indigenous Feminisms Power Panel, references feminism in the plural. "Even within those of us who really identified as Indigenous feminists, there are really [...]