The people were called the Tocharians. They were an Indo-European people who, unlike the rest of the Indo-Europeans, moved east rather than west, and settled in the Uyghur region of China where they were assimilated by the much larger local population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_mummies
You mean someone is finally acknowledging that some white people may have been there too. LOL
The people were called the Tocharians.
Uh, is that where we get the word 'toke' for the "shaman's" drug of choice?