Using ancient DNA to infer impacts of European colonization on first nations populations in coastal British Columbia, Canada

• Main Author: Owings, Amanda C.
• Other Authors: Malhi, Ripan S., Heath, Katy D., Ambrose, Stanley H., Paige, Ken N.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: First Nations; European colonization; ancient DNA; population history; British Columbia; Canada; Metlakatla; Prince Rupert; Prince Rupert Harbour; Rupert; The ''Y''; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/105220

More than 270 individuals from about the last 6000 years have been unearthed from the Prince Rupert Harbour (PRH) archaeological sites in British Columbia (BC), Canada. Their descendants, the Coast Tsimshian, still reside in BC and partnered with the Malhi lab to explore their population history and...