A groundbreaking study led by Texas's Southern Methodist University (SMU) has confirmed what the people of Picuris Pueblo ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

A federally recognized Indigenous tribe in the U.S. for the first time has led research using DNA to show their ancestral history.

“That’s not unique in North America, but it is unusual.” Picuris Pueblo is a historic community nestled in the Sangre de ...

Picuris Pueblo leaders, feeling that their concerns about protecting ... for Pueblo communities in the southwestern United ...

A "groundbreaking" DNA analysis of a small Pueblo tribe in New Mexico supports what their oral tradition has ... the first ...

A New Mexico pueblo is using DNA testing to prove its ties to Chaco Canyon in an effort to better protect the cultural site. The oral histories and traditions of the Picuris Pueblo already linked ...

The members of Picuris Pueblo, a sovereign nation in New Mexico, have oral histories and cultural traditions that link them to the region of Chaco Canyon. “We’ve been telling our stories as ...