This is, to quote UC Davis Vice Chancellor Renetta Tull, a moment of “uncomfortable reckoning.”

Dr. Kim TallBear is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is also a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science.  Professor TallBear's faculty page.