A new study of historic and modern genomes may help tribes protect ancestral lands and water rights
Where the prairies meet the Rocky Mountains, members of the Blackfoot community celebrate the Blackfoot Arts and Heritage Festival in Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada.Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy have long fought to maintain control over their land and water. Oral traditions and archaeological evidence indicate the Blackfoot Indigenous peoples and their ancestors have inhabited a broad swatch of North America for more than 10,000 years.
To consolidate and add new evidence for the region’s ancient past, Blackfoot member tribes launched the Blackfoot Early Origins Program in 2013, co-led by University of Arizona archaeologist Maria Zedeño. In 2018, the Kainai-Blood Nation and geneticists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign signed an agreement outlining protocols and expectations for the genomic analysis of Blackfoot historic ancestors and contemporary individuals.
Researchers compared the genomes of the modern and historic individuals and found they belong to a unified lineage, supporting Blackfoot oral traditions that attest to their people’s presence here since time immemorial.
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