And it does not tell us — cannot tell us — the full, particular histories of the hundreds of distinct Native nations that have inhabited the Americas from the early Holocene to the present.

Those nations developed their own languages, their own political systems, their own cosmologies, their own ecological knowledge, their own art forms and ceremonial traditions and historical relationships to specific landscapes, over the twelve thousand years that separate them from the Anzick child.

The genome can tell us something about the deep biological connections between those communities and the people who lived in the Americas at the Clovis horizon.

It cannot tell us anything about the specific histories that made those communities what they are.