A review by dashadashahi
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim TallBear

4.0

While this book's scientific jargon was occasionally confusing for me (I am a mere humanities student), I did really appreciate the historical attention paid to conceptions of blood and identity and how many modern genetic and DNA mapping technologies are shifting Indigenous identity from blood to DNA language. Clearly, replacing one colonial construct for another is problematic even if, as TallBear notes, DNA tests do have some perceived benefits.