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Sitting Bull: DNA Confirms Great-Grandson's Identity
BBC ^
| 10/28
Posted on 11/03/2021 9:58:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A sample of hair belonging to the legendary 19th century Native American leader Sitting Bull has allowed scientists to confirm that a South Dakota man is his great-grandson.
Scientists took DNA from a tiny sample of Sitting Bull's hair that had been stored in Washington DC.
It showed that Ernie LaPointe, 73, is his great-grandson. The new method allows analysis of family lineages with DNA fragments from long-dead people.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
TOPICS: History; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: dna; ernielapointe; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; lakota; lapointe; littlebighorn; nativeamrica; sioux; sittingbull; southdakota; whosyerdaddy
To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:01:29 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
(Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
To: nickcarraway
Can he Sioux for past benefits?
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:02:37 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:07:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: chajin
I don’t know if he would have any reservations about that.
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:07:41 PM PDT
by
Wilhelm Tell
(True or False? This is not a tag line.)
To: SunkenCiv
Oops, I didn’t find that when I searched.
To: nickcarraway
Fauxcahontas is deeply saddened.
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:21:35 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:26:04 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
Thanks nickcarraway.
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posted on
11/03/2021 10:50:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: nickcarraway
At first I read it as Sh_tting Bull and thought it was about Joe Biden.
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posted on
11/04/2021 4:05:55 AM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/04/2021 4:17:55 AM PDT
by
Theoria
To: Still Thinking
Is Elizabeth Warren his cousin ?
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posted on
11/04/2021 4:32:11 AM PDT
by
Baldwin77
(Traitor Joe is NOT my president)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/04/2021 9:08:58 AM PDT
by
Albion Wilde
(Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude. --Frederick Douglass)
To: Albion Wilde
They have the same nose !
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