The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
What can be said is that the remains were handled with ceremony — that the return of Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi to the earth was not a bureaucratic transfer but a culturally significant act that the communities involved understood as a responsibility and a right.
The man who had traveled across the mountains and been preserved in the ice for centuries was acknowledged as an ancestor, mourned as the dead deserve to be mourned, and returned to the land in a way that reflected the values and the governance of the people who claimed him.
This final act — the ceremonial treatment and return of Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi — is perhaps the most important aspect of the entire project from the perspective of the communities involved.
The science was valuable.
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