Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism scifi aka The Dunk Inventor

aka The Dunk Inventor

origins and histories

church-run residential school

Honoring indigenous traditions

With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set

Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism scifi aka The Dunk InventorThough 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