Environmental DNA analysis of the stomach contents could provide more detailed information about the specific species he had eaten and the specific environments associated with those species.

Whether any additional analysis will be conducted is a question for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the other communities involved in the research governance — not for scientists.

The community has already made decisions about the appropriate scope of scientific research, and those decisions are ongoing.

The scientific potential of additional analysis is a consideration, but it is not the only consideration, and it is not the governing one.

What no scientific method, however improved, can recover is the human content of Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi’s life: the specific experiences, relationships, knowledge, and meaning that constituted his existence as a person in his community and his time.