'The tests raised plenty of other questions for Gill. Chiquita, a name given to the mummy by Gill and fellow researcher Maxine Miller, was dated to about 1500.
Chiquita's DNA indicated that she was Native American -- something of a surprise, since she had blond hair. Gill still doesnt know what to make of that. He thinks more could be discovered if the mummies were subjected to the latest and best tests.'
The early French-Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye recorded these traditions when he encountered the Mandan some two centuries later. Lewis and Clark did likewise roughly a century after that.
There was much speculation at the time that these whites were descendents of Welsh Indians, variously described as a group of Welsh or Norman Welsh descendents who left Wales in the 13th century, sailed up the St. Lawrence Seaway, landed somewhere between modern day Duluth, Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and their way further west with remnants of the Mandan tribe immigrating from the Ohio River Valley.
If I remember correctly, Crazy Horse had light brown hair.