Does knowledge from oral traditions stand up to the precision of genetics and chemical dating?
A study published in the journal
Science
offers an original approach to a crucial question: that of the arrival of the horse in America.
For the first time, representatives of the Lakota people, a tribe of the Sioux group, joined Western scientists to confront the teachings of their oral transmission.
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It's a bridge between two worlds that ignore each other,
explains Ludovic Orlando, paleogeneticist at Paul-Sabatier University in Toulouse, coordinator of the study.
To be honest, I didn't know there was an indigenous science.
The idea was to combine their tools with ours and I was amazed by the seriousness of their approach.
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After my 2018 work on horse genetics, Yvette Running Horse contacted me on behalf of the Lakota people,
continues the scientist
.
She had just written a thesis on the link between peoples…
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