Blood (Kainai) First Nation, Stand Off, AB T0L 1Y0, Canada.
Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office, Browning, MT 59417, USA.
Sci Adv. 2024 Apr 5;10(14):eadl6595. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adl6595. Epub 2024 Apr 3.
Mutually beneficial partnerships between genomics researchers and North American Indigenous Nations are rare yet becoming more common. Here, we present one such partnership that provides insight into the peopling of the Americas and furnishes another line of evidence that can be used to further treaty and Indigenous rights. We show that the genomics of sampled individuals from the Blackfoot Confederacy belong to a previously undescribed ancient lineage that diverged from other genomic lineages in the Americas in Late Pleistocene times. Using multiple complementary forms of knowledge, we provide a scenario for Blackfoot population history that fits with oral tradition and provides a plausible model for the evolutionary process of the peopling of the Americas.
北美的原住民与基因组学研究人员之间互惠互利的合作关系虽然罕见，但正变得越来越普遍。在这里，我们介绍了这样一个合作关系，它为了解美洲的殖民化提供了新的视角，并提供了另一条可以用来进一步维护条约和原住民权利的证据。我们发现，来自黑脚联盟的抽样个体的基因组属于一个以前未被描述的古老谱系，它在更新世晚期与美洲的其他基因组谱系分离。我们使用多种互补的知识形式，为黑脚族群的历史提供了一个符合口头传统的情景，并为美洲殖民化的进化过程提供了一个合理的模型。
