> What nefarious purposes can you further by using someone else's DNA? Everything. From the Native American perspective being connected to the land is entire b

> What nefarious purposes can you further by using someone else's DNA? Everything. From the Native American perspective being connected to the land is entire basis of their argument. If you show that the Native Americans of today are not the Native Americans of long long ago, then you can undermine the argument that they did not own the land that white people stole from them. In a twisted way, you can't steal land from a group of people that stole it in the first place. Also, this is not about land, this is about mining, fishing and gaming rights and government recognition. If someone wanted to undermine any of that, they could show that the Native Americans do not own the land they sit on because they are not the True Native Americans. It is all to the Tribes advantage to make evidence of Kennewick man connection to non-Native Americans go away.