This is not a statement about cultural identity, tribal belonging, or the specific ethnic or cultural traditions of any living Native American people.

Genetic ancestry is not the same as cultural identity, and the genetic relationship between the Bluefish Caves people and specific living communities cannot be established from the available evidence.

What can be said is that the broad population-history framework suggested by the genetic models places people of ancestral Native American ancestry in eastern Beringia during the period represented by the Bluefish Caves dates.

Why This Evidence Was Doubted for Decades