United States: Interview: Ernie LaPointe: Honoring His Ancestor By Studying His DNA

United States: Interview: Ernie LaPointe: Honoring His Ancestor By Studying His DNA John Travis, 2010   Ernie LaPointe is the great-grandson of famed Lakota warrior Sitting Bull, who defeated George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Although some Native Americans are wary of scientific studies of their ancestors, LaPointe has entered into an unusual partnership with geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen to analyze DNA from a lock of Sitting Bull's hair that had...

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