Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Tłı̨chǫ elders of the Mille Lacs

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

to build other kinds of beautiful lives

and the stories with which she kept her culture alive

plus their role in traditional stories and myths

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

Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Tłı̨chǫ elders of the Mille LacsThough 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