Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Social Issues Patricia Demers

Patricia Demers

former columnist at the Globe and Mail in telling his life story

8 million square kilometres in the Canadian subarctic

and treaties

The Reconciliation Manifesto

Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Social Issues Patricia DemersInventing 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 II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter gatherer genes. Travis Hay and Theresa (Teri) Redsky Fiddler, an Anishinabe Elder originally from Big Grassy and Shoal Lake First Nation, and an educator, advocate,