Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Tłı̨chǫ ceremonies

ceremonies

elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe transmit a storehouse of experience and memories

While space travel and eccentric characters give this novel a lightness and ease

Inventing the Thrifty Gene exposes the exploitative nature of settler science with Indigenous subjects

plus their role in traditional stories and myths

Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Tłı̨chǫ ceremoniesThough First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well funded scientists seeking to study them. Inventing the Thrifty Gene examines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of Aboriginal diabetes and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to type 2