“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past
Anthropology.net
MAY 1, 2025
Oral traditions ignored. A DNA study initiated and directed by Picuris officials now supports their oral histories describing more than 1,000-year-old ancestral ties to ancient Chaco Canyon society. For Indigenous communities, oral tradition is not metaphor. Bones were taken. Burial grounds disturbed.
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