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In June 2015, it was made public that scientists at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark determined through DNA from 8,500‑year-old bones that Kennewick Man is, in fact, related to modern Native Americans, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation from the region in which his bones were found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man

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Thanks for the DNA update.

I had completely forgotten about the analysis done in Denmark.

I Googled up a Seattle Times article written three years ago and refreshed my once very good memory.

As I recall, the original Denmark researchers could only assemble a partial DNA profile because the bones laid in wet sand for thousands of years, so their conclusions were by no means definitive.

I also forgot that the scientist who led the lawsuit to preserve the bones for research concluded that the bones belonged to person with a maritime or coastal diet - heavy in salt water fish and crustaceans - which was completely at odds with the discovery of the bones hundreds of miles away from the Pacific.