A Lock Of Sitting Bull’s Hair Was Tested More Than A Century Later – And The DNA Confirmed A Family Claim
Those conditions have been partially addressed by NAGPRA and related legislation, but they have not been fully transformed.
What did not change: The unresolved questions about Sitting Bull’s burial site and about who has authority over decisions related to his legacy.
The DNA study provided relevant evidence, but it did not resolve disputes that involve law, jurisdiction, tribal governance, and the specific competing interests of multiple parties.
The hair came home.
The family’s claim was confirmed in a new idiom.
The reckoning continues — incomplete, contested, and ongoing, as reckonings with deep historical injustice tend to be.
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