This framing would be both factually inaccurate and culturally problematic.

The descendants of the various founding Native American population branches — including whatever descendants of Ancient Beringians survived the population changes of subsequent millennia — are the living Indigenous peoples of Alaska and the Arctic today.

The Inupiaq people whose communities occupy the Seward Peninsula, including the area near the Trail Creek Caves, are the people with the most direct connection to the geographic territory represented by the site.

The Athabascan peoples of the Alaska interior have their own ancestral connections to the region that the Upward Sun River site represents.