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When cultural gatekeeping requires genetic documentation

I have been weaving Navajo patterns my great-aunt taught me but now people are saying I need to prove my blood quantum to sell them at art fairs

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Bureaucratic authenticity measures reduce complex cultural inheritance to biological essentialism.

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