The 10,300-Year-Old Man Found Inside An Alaskan Island Cave — And The DNA Test That Revealed 10,000 Years Of Native Coastal Continuity
It is important.
Shuká Káa, Man Ahead of Us, is a specific individual whose remains provided specific evidence for a specific historical truth.
That truth is that the peoples of the Northwest Coast have been here, in their homelands, for a very long time — longer than civilization as it is conventionally understood, longer than any European nation-state has existed, longer than any record written in any alphabet goes back.
He was first among them.