Dr. Darryl Leroux of St. Mary's University joins us to talk about his research of a movement in eastern Canada that is self-indigenizing in order to gain access to social and political spaces, often based on a single ancestor from the 1600's. Additional information on his research is in the links below: https://maisonneuve.org/article/2018/11/1/self-made-metis/ https://smu.ca/academics/departments/sjcs-faculty-staff-darryl-leroux.html For more information you can also see the research of previous guest Dr. Kim Tallbear http://kimtallbear.com/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/ and Dr. Alondra Nelson http://www.alondranelson.com/books/the-social-life-of-dna-race-reparations-and-reconciliation-after-the-genome
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