The negotiation between these two knowledge systems — Western scientific methods and Indigenous knowledge, governance, and responsibility — produced something neither side could have achieved alone.

What The Ice Kept

The preservation of Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi was extraordinary by the standards of archaeological finds from this region or almost any temperate or subarctic environment.

Organic material that would have decomposed beyond recognition within years or decades in a forest or grassland burial was preserved in the glacial ice in a state that allowed detailed scientific analysis.

The clothing was among the most remarkable aspects of the preservation.