DNA from a Lock of Hair Finally Confirms Sitting Bull's Great-Grandson

For more than a century after the death of the legendary Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull, his great-grandson Ernie LaPointe sought scientific proof of what his family always knew. The answer lay in a single lock of hair held in a Smithsonian vault — and after 14 years of painstaking laboratory work, DNA extracted from those strands confirmed one of the most powerful ancestral connections in Native American history.

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