Ancient DNA analysis collapses that diversity into genomic distances and population tree diagrams.

The actual history of Native peoples — the development of distinct languages, the rise and fall of complex societies, the particular knowledge systems and ceremonial traditions and ecological relationships that each nation developed over millennia — is not in the genome.

The genome is one thread of that enormous tapestry.

Treating it as though it were the whole tapestry would be a fundamental misreading of what the science can and cannot do.

These limitations are not criticisms of the research or its findings.