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It took scientists 14 years to extract enough DNA to link the man to Sitting Bull's bloodline.

A lock of hair from legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull’s head had been stored for over a century in Washington’s Smithsonian Institution at room temperature in a glass box. Now, Sitting Bull’s lock of hair has been used to prove that a man named Ernie Lapointe is his great-grandson. Lapointe said that “over the years, […]

A lock of hair from legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull's head had been stored for over a century in Washington's Smithsonian Institution at room temperature in a glass box.

Tatanka Iyotake, popularly known as Sitting Bull, is famed as a 19th century leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people – and DNA strengthens the claim that he has living descendants

A lock of hair from legendary Lakota chief Sitting Bull's head had been stored for over a century in Washington's Smithsonian Institution at room temperature in a glass box.