Kim TallBear

Can UC administrator responses to Occupy Cal be explained by their STEM field backgrounds?

By |2017-10-01T22:11:24-06:00November 20th, 2011|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

Image: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/11/19. I blogged last week about my new research project with Native American bio-scientists who explicitly situate themselves within histories of marginization from the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and within histories of oppression more generally. This leads them to more sophisticated understandings of the role of the technosciences historically [...]

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SACNAS: Beyond “diversity and inclusion,” making science more multicultural and democratic

By |2017-10-01T22:11:24-06:00November 11th, 2011|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

I began writing this blog in the sterile, spacious, marble-floored San Jose, CA Convention Center, where I attended the largest ever annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)(close to 4,000 registrants), held October 27-30, 2011. An overworked assistant professor, I am just now getting around to finishing [...]

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Tribal wars: DNA testing divides American Indians

By |2017-10-01T22:11:24-06:00June 15th, 2011|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

  When American Indian identity is based on culture as much as blood, gene tests can tear tribes apart BLASTED from arid, rocky land where rattlesnakes once thrived, the Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino stands like a modern castle in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Saturday night and the car park is heaving with [...]

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Genographic back in the news: badly organized genetic sampling of indigenes in Peru

By |2017-10-01T22:11:24-06:00May 12th, 2011|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

On October 9, 2010, I posted a blog entry (re-posted below) in which I respond with a mixed review to the Genographic/Seaconke Wampanoag jointly-authored publication "Genetic Heritage and Native Identity of the Seaconke Wampanoag" (Zhadanov et al 2010). In short, my thoughts were that Genographic's genetic data could undercut tribal identity and attendant political claims. The Seaconke Wampanoag who [...]

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