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2. Gregory Rodriguez, “How Genealogy Became Almost as Popular as Porn,” Time, May 29, 2014, time.com/133811/how-genealogy-became-almost-as-popular-as-porn.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, “Between Hell and the Stone of Heaven,” The Observer, November 10, 2001, www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/nov/11/features.magazine37.
2. Laura Mallonee, “Startling Photos Capture Myanmar’s $31 Billion Jade Mining Industry,” Wired, May 17, 2017.
3. Sean Turnell, “Cooperative Credit in British Burma” (IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc, 2005), 5.
4. S. D. Sharma, ed., Rice: Origin, Antiquity, and History (Enfield, N.H.: Science Publishers, 2010), 459.
5. U Khin Win, A Century of Rice Improvement in Burma, International Rice Research Institute (Los Banos, Philippines, 1991).
6. John F. Cady, A History of Modern Burma (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1958), 72–73.
7. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, “Child Labor and Forced Labor Reports: Burma,” 2016, www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/resources/reports/child-labor/burma.
8. Ibid.
9. Turnell, “Cooperative Credit in British Burma.”
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 15.
12. Ibid., 17.
13. Ibid., 19.
14. Government of Burma, Report of the Land and Agriculture Committee, Part III: Agricultural Finance; Colonisation; Land Purchase (Rangoon: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1938), 90.
15. Government of Burma, Report of the Burma Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee, 1929–30: Volume I (Rangoon: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1930), 176.
16. Nalini Ranjan Chakravarti, The Indian Minority in Burma (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Race Relations, 1971), 28.
17. Ibid., 8.
18. Mahatma Ghandi, “Young India” (1929), in Young India 1919–1931, vol. XI, ed. M. K. Gandhi (Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan Publishing House, 1981).
19. Chakravarti, The Indian Minority in Burma, 47.
20. Ibid., 48.
21. Hans-Bernd Zöllner, ed., Myanmar Literature Project, Working Paper No. 10:12, “Material on Thein Pe: Indo-Burman Conflict,” www.phil.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/lehrstuehle/korff/pdf/research/mlp12.pdf.
22. Donald M. Seekins, State and Society in Modern Rangoon (London: Routledge, 2011), 44.
23. Zöllner, “Material on Thein Pe: Indo-Burman Conflict,” 133.
24. John F. Cady, A History of Modern Burma, 305.
25. Zöllner, “Material on Thein Pe: Indo-Burman Conflict.”
26. Donald Eugene Smith, Religion and Politics in Burma (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965), 109–10. Also see Michael Adas, The Burma Delta: Economic Development and Social Change on an Asian Rice Frontier, 1852–1941 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), 206.
27. Chakravarti, The Indian Minority in Burma, 158.
28. Ibid.
29. Zöllner, “Material on Thein Pe: Indo-Burman Conflict.”
30. Kate Hodal, “Buddhist Monk Uses Racism and Rumors to Spread Hatred in Burma,” The Guardian, April 18, 2013, www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/18/buddhist-monk-spreads-hatred-burma.
31. Krishnadev Calamur, “The Misunderstood Roots of Burma’s Rohingya Crisis,” The Atlantic, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/rohingyas-burma/540513.
32. “UN Human Rights Chief Points to ‘Textbook Example of Ethnic Cleansing’ in Myanmar,” UN News Centre, September 11, 2017, www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57490#.WcvzChNSzXQ.
33. Max Bearak, “One Month On, a Bleak New Reality Emerges for 436,000 Rohingya Refugees,” Washington Post, September 25, 2017.
34. Zöllner, “Material on Thein Pe: Indo-Burman Conflict.”
35. Poppy McPherson, “Aung San Suu Kyi Says Myanmar Does Not Fear Scrutiny Over Rohingya Crisis,” The Guardian, September 19, 2017, www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/19/aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-rohingya-crisis-concerned.
36. Rebecca Wright, Katie Hunt, and Joshua Berlinger, “Aung San Suu Kyi Breaks Silence on Rohingya, Sparks Storm of Criticism,” CNN, September 19, 2017, www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/asia/aung-san-suu-kyi-speech-rohingya/index.html.
CHAPTER SIX
1. Benjamin Gue, The History of Iowa (New York: Century History, 1903).
2. Wikipedia, s.v. “Treaty of Prairie du Chien,” last modified May 9, 2017, 19:19, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Prairie_du_Chien.
3. Wikipedia, s.v. “Third Treaty of Prairie du Chien,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_Prairie_du_Chien.
4. Native American Netroots, “The 1837 Winnebago Treaty,” nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1806.
5. Andrew Jackson, The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Volume VII, 1829, ed. Daniel Feller, Harold D. Moser, Laura-Eve Moss, and Thomas Coens (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), 541.
6. Charles J. Kappler, ed., “Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties,” Oklahoma State University Digital Collection, digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/win0300.htm.
7. A. R. Fulton, The Red Men of Iowa (Des Moines: Mills & Co., 1882), 148.
8. “Fort Atkinson and the Winnebago Occupation of Iowa, 1840–1849,” University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist, archaeology.uiowa.edu/files/archaeology.uiowa.edu/files/FtAtkinson9.pdf.
9. Fulton, Red Men of Iowa, 150.
10. Ibid.
11. Todd Arrington, “Exodusters,” National Park Service online, www.nps.gov/home/learn/historyculture/exodusters.htm.
CHAPTER SEVEN
1. Luxembourgers in the New World, ed. Jean Ensch, Jean-Claude Müller, and Robert E. Owen. Revised edition based on Nicholas Gonner’s Die Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt, vol. 1 (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg: Editions-Reliures Schortgen, 1987).
2. Gale, Cengage Learning, “German Immigration,” bit.ly/1voEt29.
3. IAGenWeb Project, “Norwegian Immigration into Allamakee Co., Iowa, Article #1,” iagenweb.org/allamakee/ImNat/norweg_tx.htm.
4. FamilySearch.org Wiki, “United States Naturalization and Citizenship,” familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Naturalization_and_Citizenship.
CHAPTER NINE
1. Myo Mint, The Politics of Survival in Burma: Diplomacy and Statecraft in the Reign of King Mindon, 1853–1878 (Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program, 1987), 210.
2. James Stuart Olson and Robert Shadle, eds., Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996), 2:1088.
3. David Joel Steinberg, ed., In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (New York: Praeger, 1971).
4. William J. Topich and Keith A. Leitich, The History of Myanmar (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood), 48.
5. Thant Myint-U, The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma (New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2006).
CHAPTER TEN
1. “Warning Letter, Document Number: GEN1300666, Re: Personal Genome Service (PGS),” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, November 22, 2013, www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm376296.htm.
2. David Dobbs, “The F.D.A. vs. Personal Genetics Testing,” New Yorker, November 27, 2013, www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-f-d-a-vs-personal-genetic-testing.
3. Paul Tassin, “23andMe DNA Testing Kit Class Action Settlement,” September 19, 2017, topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/820889-23andme-dna-testing-kit-class-action-settlement.
4. Andrew Pollack, “23andMe Will Resume Giving Users Health Data,
” The New York Times, October 21, 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/business/23andme-will-resume-giving-users-health-data.html. Also see Anne Wojcicki, “A Note to Our Customers Regarding the FDA,” 23andMe blog, February 19, 2015, blog.23andme.com/news/a-note-to-our-customers-regarding-the-fda, and FDA News Release, “FDA Permits Marketing of First Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Carrier Test for Bloom Syndrome,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration, February 19, 2015, www.fda.gov/newsevents/newsroom/pressannouncements/ucm435003.htm.
5. Ian Urbina, “Again, Jews Fault Mormons Over Posthumous Baptisms,” The New York Times, December 21, 2003, www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/nyregion/again-jews-fault-mormons-over-posthumous-baptisms.html.
6. Tom Heneghan, “Will Pope Benedict Become a Mormon After He Dies?” Reuters, February 5, 2007, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020500445.html. Also see Howard Berkes, “Mormon Church Limits Access to Controversial Baptism Rules,” National Public Radio, March 9, 2012, www.npr.org/sections/thetwoway/2012/03/09/148318491/mormon-church-limits-access-to-controversial-baptism-records.
7. Mark Oppenheimer, “A Twist on Posthumous Baptisms Leaves Jews Miffed at Mormon Rite,” The New York Times, March 2, 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/us/jews-take-issue-with-posthumous-mormon-baptisms-beliefs.html.
8. Michael Levenson, “Mormons Baptized Slain Reporter Daniel Pearl,” Boston Globe, February 29, 2012, www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/02/28/mormons-posthumously-baptized-wall-street-journal-reporter-daniel-pearl-who-was-killed-terrorists/7BJlGNn5gHxNvuHoso5eoI/story.html.
9. Ibid.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
1. Steph Yin, “Why Do We Inherit Mitochondrial DNA Only from Our Mothers?,” New York Times, June 23, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/science/mitochondrial-dna-mothers.html.
2. Charmaine D. Royal et al., “Inferring Genetic Ancestry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications,” American Journal of Human Genetics 86(5) (2010): 661–73, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2869013.
3. Matthew Miller, “Shrewd, Very Shrewd,” Forbes, March 1, 2004, www.forbes.com/global/2004/0301/032.html.
4. Joe Bauman and Brice Wallace, “Inventor James L. Sorenson Dies at 86,” Deseret Morning News, January 21, 2008, www.deseretnews.com/article/695245817/Inventor-James-L-Sorenson-dies-at-86.html.
5. Matthew Miller, “Shrewd, Very Shrewd.”
6. Jim Mustian, “New Orleans Filmmaker Cleared in Cold Case Murder,” The New Orleans Advocate, March 13, 2015, www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_1b3a3f96-d574-59e0-9c6a-c3c7c0d2f166.html.
7. Pew Research Center, “A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S.,” July 24, 2009, www.pewforum.org/2009/07/24/a-portrait-of-mormons-in-the-us.
8. CeCeMoore, “My Review of AncestryDNA’s Admixture Tool and a Glimpse into the Future of Genetic Genealogy,” June 26, 2012, www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2012/06/my-review-of-ancestrydnas-admixture.html.
9. Charmaine D. Royal et al., “Inferring Genetic Ancestry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications.”
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
1. Kim Tallbear, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
2. “Remarks by the President, Prime Minister Tony Blair of England (via satellite), Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and Dr. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Celera Genomics Corporation, on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project,” White House press release, June 26, 2000, www.genome.gov/10001356/june-2000-white-house-event. Also see Duana Fullwiley, “The ‘Contemporary Synthesis’: When Politically Inclusive Genomic Science Relies on Biological Notions of Race,” Isis 105, no. 4 (December 2014): 803–14, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/679427.
3. Ruha Benjamin, “A Lab of Their Own: Genomic Sovereignty as Postcolonial Science Policy,” Policy and Society 28 (2009): 341–55.
4. Deborah Bolnick et al., “The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing,” Science, April 25, 2011, 399–400.
5. Ibid.
6. Jennifer K. Wagner et al., “Attitudes of Genetics Professionals and Anthropologists Toward Race, Ancestry, and Genetics: Results of a National Survey,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology, November 2016.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALEX WAGNER is a television and print journalist. She lives in New York City with her husband, son, and cat. This is her first book.
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