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Aboriginal Policy Research: Setting the Agenda for Change volume 1 along with volume two include the original papers presented at the first Aboriginal Policy Research Conference held in Ottawa in 2002

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Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism Gratefulness gifts and generosityInventing 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,