An ancient mariner who lived and died 10,000 years ago on an island west of Ketchikan probably doesn't have any close relatives left in Alaska.Interesting speculation on the origins of the Tlingit and Haida people who now live in Southeast Alaska.
But some of them migrated south and their descendents can be found today in coastal Native American populations in California, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina.
That's some of what scientists learned this summer by examining the DNA of Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Indians in Southeast Alaska.
Monday, December 29, 2008
ADN's DNA story: Tracking Alaska Native DNA
Story in The Anchorage Daily News on genetic research suggesting the West Coast of America was populated by seagoing people out of Asia. It begins:
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1.)They are all linked back genetically to costal indian tribes. All DNA was traced back to common ancestors who lived in Africa.
2.) A lot of the Alaskans got their food from the sea and most died at a very young age as a researcher found a man had only lived to his mid- twenties
1.) According to the Saliva Swab DNA tes tthat was taken. the DNA shows that the Alaskan people are closley related to the coastal indian tribes in British Columbia and Washington State.
2.) Alot of their means of food was captured from the sea. They did not live very long lives at all either, there were traces of people dying in their mid-twenties.
1. The first people began in Africa and all had common dna. They migrated torwards alaska and their dna slowly mutated.
2. It shows that they lived off of freshwater, they died young, and their civilizations were based around rivers.
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