His claim to the bloodline is now unquestionable.
The long-degraded strand of hair offered little material to test, which limited the type of analysis available to the scientists.
He led Native American warriors who wiped out federal troops led by George Custer at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn in what is now the U.
Before the remains from the Mobridge burial site can be reburied elsewhere, they will have to be analysed in a similar way to the hair sample to ensure a genetic match to Sitting Bull.
Lapointe believes that Sitting Bull's remains currently lie at a site in Mobridge, South Dakota, in a place that has no significant connection to the warrior and the culture he represented.
I admire his courage and his drive.
Description: A scientific first used a new method to examine fragments from long-dead people to analyze family lineages.