Sitting Bull’s great-grandson, Ernie LaPointe, identified by DNA on hair 130 years later, study says

After Sitting Bull’s dying, Horace Deeble, an Military doctor on the Fort Yates army base in North Dakota, took a lock of the Native American legend’s hair and his wool leggings, regardless of not having any authority or permission. In 1896, the Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past in D.C. obtained Sitting Bull’s hair and leggings. The museum returned the gadgets to LaPointe and his three sisters in 2007, in response to the examine. Although a lot of the lock of hair was “burned in a non secular ceremony,” a small piece of it was saved for future examine, researchers mentioned.