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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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Hegemonic STEM fields & Nancy Scheper-Hughes editorial on Berkeley frosh DNA testing

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00December 14th, 2010|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

In a guest editorial in Anthropology Today, UC Berkeley anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes describes her experience and that of other faculty from across UC Berkeley who expressed concerns this past May when we first learned about the College of Letters & Sciences (L&S) 2010-11 "On the Same Page" (OTSP) program. Instead of the usual freshman experience centered around [...]

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Predictable press on PhysAnth article on Native American mtDNA in Iceland

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00November 26th, 2010|Categories: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, TECHNOSCIENCE, & ENVIRONMENT, Kim TallBear|

There have been sensationalist claims in the press during the last week following the publication in The American Journal of Physical Anthropology of Ebeneserdottir et al's A New Subclade of mtDNA Haplogroup C1 Found in Icelanders: Evidence of Pre-Columbian Contact? Following the press, I was prepared to read an article that way over-reached the evidence in its concluding [...]

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Tougher controls sought for DNA ancestry testing

By |2017-10-01T22:11:25-06:00July 2nd, 2009|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

  BERKELEY — As the popularity of take-home DNA kits to trace ancestry or calculate the risk for serious medical conditions grows, there is an increasingly critical need for federal oversight of "direct-to consumer" genetic testing, as well as of the use of DNA samples for research, according to researchers from the University of California, [...]

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The Ethics of Now with Kim TallBear

By |2023-04-10T23:51:26-06:00April 10th, 2023|Categories: , |

Join the Kenan Institute for Ethics and host Adriane-Lentz Smith for a conversation with Kim TallBear on being in good relation. Author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science and The Critical Polyamorist blog, Kim TallBear thinks deeply and creatively about how to “be in good relation,” whether in how we [...]

Hawthorn Lecture: “Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind” with Dr. Kim TallBear

By |2022-09-22T22:26:21-06:00September 22nd, 2022|Categories: , |

“Close Encounters of the Colonial Kind” This talk is spoken in the voice of IZ, which represents the evolving field that began as American Indian or Native American studies in the USA in the second half of the 20th century. Today, Critical Indigenous Studies brings together multiple Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty political movements around the world as they intellectually engage the academy. As Aileen Moreton-Robinson writes, “Indigenous-centered approaches to knowledge production are thriving” globally in the 21st century. Our “object of study is colonizing power in its multiple forms, whether the gaze is on Indigenous issues or on Western knowledge production.” In this talk, Kim TallBear’s object of study and critical polydisciplinamorous engagement is a scientist character who searches for signs of “intelligent” life off-Earth.

Lecture by Kim TallBear: Identity is a Poor Substitute For Relating

By |2021-03-21T22:00:42-06:00March 21st, 2021|Categories: , |

Kim TallBear will speak on "Identity is a Poor Substitute For Relating: Genetics, Critical Polyamory, and Property." TallBear is Associate Professor, Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. She is building a research hub in Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society. TallBear is author of [...]

Co-PI: Dr. Kim TallBear

By |2022-10-04T10:25:29-06:00March 30th, 2020|

About Kim TallBear I am a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in present day South Dakota, USA through my maternal line. I am also eligible for citizenship through my maternal grandfather in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in present day Oklahoma. I was raised on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe reservation [...]

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Indigenous Science, Technology, and Society (Indigenous STS) is an international research and teaching hub, housed at the University of Alberta, for the bourgeoning sub-field of Indigenous STS. Our mission is two-fold: 1) To build Indigenous scientific literacy by training graduate students, postdoctoral, and community fellows to grapple expertly with techno-scientific projects and topics that affect their territories, peoples, economies, and institutions; and 2) To produce research and public intellectual outputs with the goal to inform national, global, and Indigenous thought and policymaking related to science and technology. Indigenous STS is committed to building and supporting techno-scientific projects and ways of thinking that promote Indigenous self-determination.
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