"The scientific achievement is also seen to have significant implications for First Nations’ land claims and treaty rights, giving aboriginal groups a powerful new tool for demonstrating deep-rooted links between the present and hyper-distant past. “Having a DNA link showing direct maternal ancestry dating back at least 5,000 years is huge as far as helping the Metlakatla prove that this territory was theirs over the millennia,” said First Nations archeologist Barbara Petzelt, a co-author of the study who also served as the chief liaison between scientists — including one of this country’s top physical anthropologists, Jerome Cybulski of the Canadian Museum of Civilization — and the Metlakatla community." montrealgazette/technology/Breakthrough+study+links+woman+year+grandmother/8622672/story.html
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