Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US
- Written by Elizabeth Watt, Research Fellow, Deakin University
Last week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released a video strongly suggesting two things: she is running for US president in 2020, and she has Native American ancestry.
The second claim was apparently confirmed by the results of a DNA test, which compared genetic data from Warren’s whole genome with that from people of known Central...
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