Ancient genomes from other Clovis contexts, from pre-Clovis contexts, and from the full geographic and temporal range of Native American prehistory will add to the picture.

New analytical methods applied to the existing Anzick material may extract additional information.

The growing dialogue between genomic researchers and Native American communities may open new questions that neither scientists nor community members had previously thought to ask.

But the central truth established by the Anzick child’s burial is not going to change.

The first Americans were not mysterious outsiders.

They were not a vanished race disconnected from the living people who now inhabit the Americas.