A groundbreaking study led by Texas's Southern Methodist University (SMU) has confirmed what the people of Picuris Pueblo ...

DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

He said that Western scientists, including himself, knew embarrassingly little about the tribe’s history at the time. The traditional “archaeological worldview,” Adler said, was that the Picuris did ...

"The fact that this was really something that was initiated by the Picuris [people] — that ... scientists have a long history of taking Native American ancestral remains and conducting studies without ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

as well as the genomes of 13 modern tribe members. Comparisons showed a clear genetic connection between ancient and modern Picuris Pueblo people — as well as to ancient inhabitants of Chaco ...

New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon was home to Puebloan people who built monumental high-rises ... this is the first time a federally ...

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral history ... disenfranchises the Pueblo people who live all around ...

knew embarrassingly little about the tribe’s history at the time. The traditional “archaeological worldview,” Adler said, was that the Picuris did not follow the ways of the Chacoan people t ...

Researchers examined data on ancient DNA previously obtained ... and bone remains excavated in the 1960s of 16 people who lived at the tribe's home site 500 to 1,500 years ago.

For the first time, a federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral history ... disenfranchises the Pueblo people who live all around ...