He was found — recognized as someone who belonged, returned from the ice, received with the obligations that the living have always had toward the ancestors.

The glacier held him.

The name holds him still.

Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi — Long Ago Person Found.

Found by hunters in the melting ice.

Found by scientists in the laboratory.

Found by seventeen living people in the mirror of their own DNA.

And found, most importantly, by the communities whose ancestor he was — communities that never lost the knowledge of who their people were and who recognized him, when the ice gave him back, as one of their own.