They governed what research was appropriate and what was not.

They participated in a DNA study that connected him to seventeen living members of their communities.

And then they performed the ceremonies that the dead require and returned him to the earth.

The scientists who worked on the project produced findings that are genuinely significant — about diet, about travel patterns, about the biological connections between ancient and living people, about the specific isotopic and genetic signatures that can be read from centuries-old tissue.

Those findings are part of the scientific record and will continue to inform research on the Indigenous peoples and the landscapes of the Northwest Coast and subarctic interior.