SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism, Statistical Inference, Patrilineality
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Most ancestry tests look for alleles/halotypes that are associated with specific populations. Not everyone in a population has any given allele. Alleles that are common in a particular population are also present elsewhere. Based on a sample of recent people using statistical inference. Indigenous is a term and identity related to the global indigenous movement. Refers broadly to people/nations that were already present when a colonizing or settling population arrived. Can also be used to flatten those peoples into a homogeneous kind. Indigenous populations are defined by specific characteristic of populations genomes populations genomes. Co-exists with a view of static cultural distinction. Place based: "they were not simply first but they arose as peoples, humans in relationships with particular places" (514) Oppositional: indigenous identity defined in terms of resistance against colonial forces. Indigenous peoples across disparate histories and geographies. " (514) Tallbear discusses two cultural narratives that support and are supported by the genomic articulation of indigeneity.
