A Lock Of Sitting Bull’s Hair Was Tested More Than A Century Later – And The DNA Confirmed A Family Claim

That sequence matters.

Research conducted with community consent and for community purposes is ethically different from research conducted on community members’ ancestors without their involvement.

Lakota Kinship and What Science Can and Cannot See

There is a dimension of the Sitting Bull DNA study that goes beyond the specific genetic findings and beyond the specific history of how his hair came to be in a museum and then returned to his family.

It touches on a fundamental question about how different systems of knowledge relate to each other — and specifically about the relationship between genetic science and Indigenous kinship.