“Indian Blood”: Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity

Strong, Pauline Turner; Winkle, Barrik van

doi:10.1525/can.1996.11.4.02a00050

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“…Similarly, studies involving genetic markers found more commonly in American Indian and Alaska Native populations can disrupt the social equilibrium that exists within a community by revealing that participants and their families are more "European" in ancestry than they themselves believe. Such findings have social consequences in many indigenous communities, as the ability to occupy a political office often is contingent upon establishing one's ancestry as sufficiently "Native" (34). Here too, it is unlikely that researchers who are not themselves members of these communities could anticipate such research-related risks or fully appreciate their significance for the community and its members.…”

Section: Environmental Justice • Sharp and Fostermentioning

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Community involvement in the ethical review of genetic research: lessons from American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Sharp

Foster

2002

Environ Health Perspect

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The National Bioethics Advisory Commission has proposed that regulatory oversight for research with human subjects be extended beyond the protection of individual research participants to include the protection of social groups. To accomplish this, the commission recommends that investigators and ethics review boards a) work directly with community representatives to develop study methods that minimize potential group harms, b) discuss group implications as part of the informed consent process, and c) consider group harms in reporting research results. We examine the utility of these recommendations in the context of research with American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Because much attention has been given to the question of how best to consult with members of these communities in the design and conduct of research, we believe it behooves investigators to consider the lessons to be learned from research involving American Indians and Alaska Natives. After describing several difficulties surrounding the application of the commission's approach to these research contexts, we propose a research agenda to develop best practices for working with local communities in the ethical assessment of epidemiologic and environmental health research.

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Section: Environmental Justice • Sharp and Fostermentioning

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Community involvement in the ethical review of genetic research: lessons from American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Sharp

Foster

2002

Environ Health Perspect

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“…As one critic remarked, "the problem is marriage" (Heriard 2000:54). In other words, Indians are marrying themselves out of "existence," at least according to the federal government (Strong and Van Winkle 1996). Similar sentiment is expressed by other critics.…”

Section: Ethnicity Marriage and Identitymentioning

confidence: 57%

American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity

Logan

2011

Hum Ecol

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Interethnic marriage represents a major trend in the demographic history of American Indians. While the majority of these unions involved Indian women and Caucasian men, a sizeable number occurred between Indians and African Americans. The children of these bicultural marriages were "mixed bloods" who in turn typically married non-Indians or other mixed bloods. Using data from the 1910 Census on American Indians in the United States and Alaska, this article explores why American Indians with African ancestry enjoyed high fertility. Differential rates of fertility among American Indians in the past were due to a number of underlying genetic, cultural, and environmental factors. By identifying these factors, the paradox of why Indian women with African heritage did so well in terms of fertility largely disappears. African admixture, however, greatly complicates Indian social identity.

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“…Schneider's critique focused on the genealogical model as a Western cultural construct. Schneider (1968Schneider ( , 1972Schneider ( , 1984 argued that seemingly biological objects such as blood are social constructs that convey biological affinity (see also Carsten 2001Carsten , 2011Marks 2002;Strong and Van Winkle 1996;Tallbear 2013). Kin are ultimately connected by an 'enduring solidarity' produced and maintained through social interactions and expressed as 'blood ties' (Schneider 1968; see also Baumann 1995).…”

Section: Recent Developments In Sociocultural Approaches To Kinshipmentioning

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Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

Johnson

Paul

2015

J Archaeol Res

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Theoretical developments in sociocultural anthropology have transformed the study of kinship. Here, we review these theoretical developments, consider their influence on bioarchaeological kinship research, and propose an alternative framework for studying relatedness in antiquity. We find that broader, more flexible conceptions of relatedness have grown increasingly prevalent in 21st-century bioarchaeology, but kinship research largely continues to emphasize methodological improvement and identification of biological kin in archaeological contexts. By approaching kinship as a multiscalar dimension of social identity, bioarchaeologists can leverage complex conceptions of relatedness with diverse types of data to gain nuanced perspectives on family-based social organization in the past.

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“Indian Blood”: Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity

Cited by 91 publications

References 26 publications

Community involvement in the ethical review of genetic research: lessons from American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

Community involvement in the ethical review of genetic research: lessons from American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

American Indians with African Ancestry: Differential Fertility and the Complexities of Social Identity

Bioarchaeology and Kinship: Integrating Theory, Social Relatedness, and Biology in Ancient Family Research

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