By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The DNA, which has been obtained from the remains of people who live in Boeplo Bonito, helps in Chako Canyon in New Mexico since the millennium that helps link today’s members of the Boeplo tribe to this historical site known as the distinctive architecture and the sacred meaning of the original.
The researchers studied data on the old DNA that was previously obtained from the human remains in the Boeplo Bonito, along with the newly obtained DNA from 13 members of the Becores Boeplo tribe and from the teeth and excessive bones in the sixties of the last century of 16 people who lived in the site of the tribe 500 to 1500 years. They found a close genetic relationship between Picuris Pueblo at the present time and the old Poliblo Punito residents.
The researchers said that the original groups often face obstacles when confirming the claims of grandparents and cultural affiliations on the basis of oral history. The leaders of Picores Boeplo felt their concerns about protecting the valley by the US government, approaching researchers about the DNA study.
“It was overlooked and erased,” how the tribe felt, according to Chege Coyau, who was the tribal ruler when the research was launched and now ruler.
“This was something we could do on our conditions,” said Quanchello.
CACO CANYON is the UNESCO World Heritage site and a place with great ancestors of Boybelo societies in the southwest of the United States. It is located in the northwest of New Mexico, and its structures have been built by people called Puebloans, which was previously referred to as Anasazi.
Boeplo Bonito, which means “beautiful town” in Spanish, is among the most important structures before Colombia in the United States, although its original function is a matter of discussion. It is one of the huge “great homes” built in Chako Canyon with the sandstone stone from the slopes of the valley.
The Picores tribe is concentrated near Tawos, about 170 miles (275 km) west of Chako Canyon.
“The main goal of this research is to assess the genetic relations between the Picoreris community and the ancestral grandparents groups, specifically those who lived in Chako Canyon between about 900 and 1200 m,” Tomaz Pinotti said in the magazine, “Those who lived in Chako Canyon between 900 and 1,200 m:
“Although traditional knowledge supports such a link, the Picoreris community has sought genetic assertion to complete the ongoing memorization efforts focusing on Chako Canyon and the vast ancestors scene of Boeplo, which was part of more than 1000 years,” Penoti said.
Publication by other scientists in 2017 of the genetic data of ancient human remains in Boeplo Bonito was born in controversy due to the lack of pre -consultation with indigenous societies. In the new study, the tribe retained the control of DNA data and work parameters, including the decision to publish the results. The tribe decided to obtain DNA data for the year 2017 in the study.
The study did not look at the modern DNA from the other Poliplo societies, and the researchers said that the results do not challenge the links that other tribes may have Chako Canyon.
“Chako Canyon is really an important and sacred place for many of the original groups in the southwest of us, including because they live their ancestors. There is already a lot of evidence of this: archeology, anthropology, ethnography in the Almohad section.
Adler said: “But despite all this, some scholars are still wondering about the relationship, which made it difficult for the original groups to have an opinion on decisions about the preservation of Chako Canyon,” Adler said.
Quanchello noticed that Picuris, a federal recognized tribe, is small in number.
“We have narrated our stories for the longest long period of time. We have an archaeologist, we have results, we have artifacts in telling our story to us,” said Quanchello.
Quanchello added, but the DNA provides very strong evidence.
“We have directed this ship in the hope that the use of technology in the Western way – they will now listen. This is something that we have always known – who we are. The elderly (we have always known that we were here, (we) come to all that we felt and knew (verified).”
(Will Doneham’s reports, edited by Rosalba Operation) participated
