That thread is real.

It crosses several centuries.

It was preserved in the ice and recovered in the laboratory and understood in the cultural framework of the living communities whose ancestor it connects them to.

Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi — Long Ago Person Found — was found in the ice, studied with care and respect, connected to living relatives, and returned to the earth with ceremony.

The glacier gave him back.

The community received him.