Indigeneity

Place-based: “They were not simply first but they arose as peoples, as humans in relationships with particular places.” (514)
Oppositional: Indigenous identity defined in terms of resistance against colonial forces.
Generative: “… enabling mutual recognition and collaboration by indigenous peoples across disparate histories and geographies.” (514)

Narratives underlying genomic articulation (TallBear 2013)

TallBear discusses two cultural narratives that support and are supported by the genomic articulation of indigeneity:

Indigenous peoples represent “pure” populations that developed in relative isolation.
Due to colonialism, genetic admixture is making “pure” indigeneity rarer.
Provides scientific backing for indigenous erasure.

All humans can be traced to a single “mitochondrial Eve” who is supposed to have lived in North Africa.
Implicitly (and often explicitly) conceives of non-Europeans as an earlier stage of human development.
Provides scientific backing for indigenous erasure.